I rarely wear the fashionable when I'm running, swimming or biking. I wear the functional. It's more comfortable for one, and I'm the least glamorous exerciser you're going to find, so I'm hardly looking to draw attention.
On the 4th of July I was scheduled for a brick; a 3 hour bike followed by a 30-40 minute run. For some reason I grabbed one of those 'skorts' because it was on top and changed from the thick bike pad shorts I rode in to transition to the run. Tired from the bike let alone humidity, and then against the wind I was barely moving.
Evidently I wasn't the only one. An older gentleman and his wife slowed their car along the county road and asked "Hiking or hitchhiking?"
All I could respond was "That slow?"
After he sped by I thought maybe that I looked a little too dressed for the grocery store in my skort and color coordinated shirt and shoes- maybe from his generation's vantage point I looked like my car had broken down on the way to the parade and I needed assistance.
Whatever, I picked up my speed a little bit, not to be mistaken again for a stranded-by-the-roadside traveler.
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