QOTD: At what point do you decide that a running shirt or shorts are no longer worthy of wearing for a run?
ATTQOTD: I have yet the throw away a pair of shorts, although I am getting close. The liner is falling apart, but running shorts are $$$. Shirts on the other hand or different. I get so many from races that as soon I one starts falling apart I throw it away.
...Is it annoying if I say "When they no longer spark joy"?
I'm one of those KonMari converts; I donated two thirds of my clothing overall last fall, and when I got my running clothes back out this summer I immediately decided that a pair of shorts I'd kept also needed to go because they just didn't feel right on me.
As a more concrete answer...sometimes I'll discard something just because I don't like it anymore, but more often, now that I've done the work once and narrowed my wardrobe down to only things I enjoy, it does usually come down to things getting worn out. Capris (or any kind of shorts or trousers) with holes in unstrategic places aren't joyful. Neither was the Governor's Cup shirt I discarded because it had started to pill and the texture was driving me nuts. Neither would be an exceptionally stinky garment that I couldn't un-stink (though I haven't had that happen yet).
Some are not worthy right from the start. More and more races around me are giving away tech shirts and some are cheap and not very good. They never make the "rotation". For shirts that age out it is usually that a seam is coming loose or it has a hole.
I use
this wash that I got from
Amazon and have never had the odor of sweat not come out in one wash. It is 29 cents per ounce and a better deal than Nathan (39 cents) or WIN (31 cents). I read somewhere a while back that the Atsko wash is the exact same as the branded washes but a generic version. I have no idea but it has worked for me.
MmmHMM. I've been a real packrat in the past, and I know that as I start to run races again I'm going to accumulate Stuff. I've gotten a lot better at discarding things I would have found too sentimental to get rid of in the past; I expect I'll keep and display my medals but only hang onto the shirts if I really, truly like them--not just because they happen to have been given to me.
QOTD: Do you wear your running shoes for anything other than running while they are still in your rotation as running shoes or your only pair?
ATTQOTD: Yes and no... I only use my running shoes to run. I do not put them on until I am about to start running and then immediately take them off once completed. I do not keep them on to drive or to do things around the house. The only exception to this rule is for touring the parks. I take the older pair with me since they are on the way out, but still have a decent amount of support in them.
I only have one pair right now, and I only wear them for running, absolutely nothing else. When they get replaced and I stop running in them I'll hang onto them, maybe use them as walking shoes, definitely have them in reserve in case I do any of the muddy obstacle course type of races (I did a one-mile zombie run/obstacle course a few years back and ended up running in really bad shoes because I knew I'd literally be wading through mud for part of it and didn't want to subject my good running shoes to that). When I start to have more retired shoes...I dunno. I'll get rid of them when they stop sparking joy, I guess. That's kind of my answer to everything related to my possessions.
QOTD: We have about a week to go to register for marathon weekend. Are you running any of the races? If so, which ones? Have you decided you are running but not sure which races yet? Anyone going to make a impulse decision?
ATTQOTD: I am running! Going to register for the marathon without a POT since I dont have one and hope that after a run a half this fall I may be able to convince someone at the expo to move me up. It's highly unlikely, but worth a shot. No impulse decisions regarding registration though. Training will go into full effect when we get back from WDW. No more excuses, if yall dont see runs posted next week, yall have my permission to call me out!
Nope. Already committed all of my vacation dollars and vacation hours for the 2018-19 fiscal year to my
Disneyland Paris trip, so another major trip is entirely out of the question until fall 2019. On the bright side, my WDW Marathon plans for 2020 are shaping up, and it looks like mmmaaaybe I'll be able to convince my housemate to come along. She has some pretty good reasons to say no (not least that she's planning to open her own shop only six months before the trip), but I'm hopeful that planning it so far ahead of time will make it possible to work around things and make it happen.
I will be keeping an eye on registration and the marathon thread in the coming week, though, to see how it goes for everyone. Want to have a feel for how things will be when it's my turn next year.
