chuck taylor, a player and a salesman

Most people have their shoe of choice. Some people will never ever part with the 90's icon the Doc Marten, some people love their skate shoe, and for some its not a style but a brand that they pine and urn for. For me its the Converse All-Star, you know the Chuck Taylor's, Chucks, the original basketball shoe, the shoe that has zero ergonomic properties but comes in the most fashionable styles and colors. Recently I've downgraded my footwear at work from your average business casual shoes to my old standbys, but recently they have been causing me a bit of an issue. You know that annoying feeling of your shoes slipping off your heel as you walk, but the more annoying flatulation sound that it makes with each stride. Well my work ready brown Chucks are displaying this most unflattering property making me wonder if every person that I walk by thinks I have a rapid-fire gastric problem.

a couple things not worth noting

So I officially started training for a marathon today, depending on how things go I will either run one in February in Apache Junction, AZ and if things go as I would expect them to, I will be running the marathon in Big Sur, CA in April. I think I might put my run times on my blog for accountability reasons, but I’m not sure yet. Today was 3 miles planned, 3 miles completed, 26 minutes 17 seconds, Wednesday is scheduled for 7 miles, that will be a test and if by some miracle of an ancient running deity I finish that I will attempt to run 10 with Ryan this coming weekend. Imagining running ten miles is rough, I can’t really imagine doing right now, so it sort of puts Ryan’s running in perspective, well as "in perspective" as you can be outside looking in. I was amazingly ill prepared this morning, its much darker and colder in the morning since last time I took to the trail, although running this morning by moonlight was inspiring in some odd way for a first run, tomorrow I'll be wearing a hat and a headlamp.

Another item not worth noting, I bought some new shoes to be my daily kicks for work and etcetera, they are black on black Van’s style slip-ons and they catch me off guard every time I stand up from my desk. New shoes always do this to me, they look odd for a while till I get used to seeing them. I guess it’s much like haircuts (which I obviously don’t get) and new eye glasses, they are just odd until you get accustomed to them. I think adding to the issue is that they look sort of like slippers to me.

Last item not worth noting, I’ve never really been a reggae fan except for Bob Marley singles and the occasional reggae-a-thon that is working with my brother-in-law Dusty, but I have found that I’m enjoying Michael Franti and Spearhead. I know weird name, but they had a great protest song “Light Up Ya Lighter” on a compilation I received for free. It’s my MySpace profile song and you should check them out if you get the chance. The next segment of the Anti-Utah saga is coming but I won’t say soon because I don’t know when I’ll get to it. I should be doing homework now, or work considering that is where I’m at.