Imelda Marcos Syndrome: Oh, what has the postman... - Couch to 5K

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Imelda Marcos Syndrome

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Oh, what has the postman brought? A strangely shoe-boxed shaped parcel... whatever can it be? A pair of Reebok All Terrain OCR shoes? Well fancy that! No dear, I have no idea... ermm... oh look, it's raining! I'm just going to pop out to the woods for an hour...

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poppypugGraduate

Fab shoes Rig, nice tablecloth too :-D xxx

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Rignold

Damn, I should have changed the tablecloth. Will have to buy some more shoes and take another pic.

These are particularly ace, I must say. Obstacle Course Race shoes. Extremely light, huge knobbly studs and also a toothed area on the instep to help on the rope climbs, really flat profile, drainage holes along the front to jettison water. Now if only they had springs in the soles for the burpees.

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poppypugGraduate in reply to Rignold

They look right up your street , Rig. Im sure you will give them some serious welly xxx

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TomasGraduate in reply to Rignold

Sounds very serious! Congrats with the new shoes

they look to good to get dirty :)

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pinkangel16Graduate

Ooo they are niiice :-)

Shoes like that are bound to improve thr running :-) xx

And yes, another impressive table cloth!

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UllyrunnerGraduate

Lovely shoes Rignold ! Real go faster look to them.

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GettingFitterGraduate

Love it nice new shiny shoes. Formula for number of shoes you need is n+1 where n is the number of pairs you own. Number of pairs allowed to avoid divorce is D-1 where D is the number where your better half throws a wobbly ;-)

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suel18Graduate

Ooh lovely enjoy x

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JenJan

Love your style...one can NEVER have too many shoes...

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Zev1963Graduate

Splendid looking shoes. Feet are wonderful things, and so deserve excellent shoes. :)

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SlookieGraduate

For climbing ropes! You running the Borneo rainforest challenge in 'em? Do they have inflatable canoes and steering? They look like the doggies doo-dahs :)

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Rignold in reply to Slookie

I am training for several Obstacle course races which involve a lot of rope climbs etc. While wet and muddy. Also doing a lot of very muddy cross country runs and my regular trail shoes just don't cut it.

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scawbyplaceGraduate

ooooohh!! new running shoes......... she says dreamily, while gazing at the photo and wishing she had new trainers.

I bet those bad boys would do the burpees on their own if you set them down infront of the bars ; )

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5kOrBustGraduate

I want yellow shoes. Or orange. Or green. Or blue. Or red. Too many years of boring white trainers. Time for change.

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adidas1961Graduate

Very nice, love the colours.........

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frannyfranGraduate

Dazzling!

Have fun running with them!

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