Coming into the season my cross shoes were pretty trashed. They were beat up, getting really flexy in the sole, the buckle kinda worked, and they smelled god awful. The insides are so rotten, that if I don't wear two pairs of socks, I'll get blister on my left foot. Did I mention how bad these things smell? It's like skunky-swamp-ass.
The shoes have been good to me, they don't owe me another day. In fact I like the shoes so much, I bought another pair...
Sadly, the freezer contains the smell, it can't really kill it off at this point. The stinky race shoes, the ones that live in the freezer have been the ones that have insured a clean start, the one pair that insure smooth dismount, and fast remount... the one stinky pair, that three weeks ago I said I would throw away. The pair that I never intended to use during Crosstober.
I had the realization that these stinky gnarly shoes are my race shoes- stench and all. yeah, sorry about the smell, but they are my RDO shoes, and they will be for the final half of the season.
Bonus Pizza
Work has been super crazy this week. I ran across the street at lunch to the pizza joint and ordered two slices of pizza: one white and one regular. The lady at the counter is new. She smiles and hands me two pizza boxes. I looked at her puzzled. She says, " I'm new, I screwed up cutting a pizza this morning, we can't sell the slices, I didn't want to throw them away.."
I hustled back to the office and opened the box to find two regular cheese slices in one box, and 4 completely mangled odd shaped and in no way consistently cut slices of white pizza in the second box. Altogether, they were a half a pizza, just not cut in any uniform fashion.
GOOD NEWS! totally pizza score!
BAD News! While I could easily normally eat 4 -6 slices of pizza, but during skin-suit season, I just can't eat like that, so I shared with some folks in the office...
This would have never happened in off season...
Anyone have any ice cream they want to give me that I can't eat?
thanks for reading.
respect
fatmarc
1 comment:
FMV,
I rode some new, unmarked trails last year at WCC, up from creek road, with BB and MH. Had a few creek crossing and such. Not only did that ride ruin a great pair of cycling shoes, it also ruined a pair of work shoes. See, when I ride my bike to work, I wear my cycling shoes upstairs after my shower and that smell got into my socks then into my dress shoes. Nothing worked to relieve the smell except throwing the shoes away. It was like the Seinfield episode with the car that smelled. Maybe you also ride the same trail?
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