New breed of female runners: Fastinista's

There's a new kind of female runner, and she's called Fastinista.

Fastinistas don't just grab the first pair of clothing they come across, no they carefully choose their outfit.

They like to wear running skirts and dresses, and combine them with knee socks and matching head bands. Sales of female running clothes have gone up from 275 USD in 2007 to 350 million in 2010!

And these women are serious runners: a lot of them participated in the Boston Marathon, a marathon you have to qualify for! However, critics say these women give running a bad name, and that they care more about their looks than their pace.

How to spot a Fastinista

I found a list of characteristics of Fastinista's at Silly Girl Running

1. she's a woman who likes to look stylish when she runs
2. has at least two kids
3. runs 15 miles a week...at most
4. sticks to ladies only races
5. won't race any distance longer than 10K
6. sticks to road running
7. likes her make-up to be perfect throughout the race
8. won't even think of running up and down a mountain

Am I a Fastinista?

Sure, I do like to look nice during my runs, but not in a Hey-look -at-me!-way, and I hate knee socks. They make my knees look ugly, and I've never understood them. I do have at least two kids, five to be exact. I run more than 15 miles a week, and I don't do races, period. I hate wearing make-up in general, and I don't mind running up a mountain.

So, I'm not a Fastinasta. I'm just a mom who likes to run while wearing cute running skirts.

Are you a Fastinista?

Running skirt weather!

Now that I literally rún the School Run, five times a week, I try to give my body a chance to recuperate during the weekend. I used to do my long run on Sunday, but now I go to church or (try to) enjoy my obligatory Sunday rest.

I don't always find this change in routine easy! There's this little voice inside of me whispering: 'Shouldn't you do your long run today?'
But I tell that annoying voice what I've read in lots of running books: 'You should give your muscles a chance to catch up.'

But yesterday, even though it was a rest day, I just hád to go out for a run. Because it was warm enough to run in my running skirt, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that. The feeling of the wind brushing my bare legs, was lovely.

I can't wait till I can put my running tights and capris away, and wear my running skirts all the time again.

Do you like bare legged running?!

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Overtaken

I can totally relate to the runner in this movie!



Are you overtaken often as a runner?

Song about a jogger

A special song about a very special jogger!

Bobby Bare: The Jogger

Well I've been a trucker more than twenty years
From the Charleston coast to the Jersey piers
Sharin' the road with race car nuts and loggers
Sunday drivers scouts on hikes Hells Angels on Harley bikes
I never met a roader I didn't like cept them joggers

One day I'm rollin' down 1-0-1
I got 18 wheels under 14-tons
Radio playin' a good ol' country rocker
The day was sure a trucker's dream
The sky was sunny and the air was clean
When up ahead on the road I seen one of them joggers

He was dressed like they do in baby blue
With shortie shorts and a headband too
I yelled Sweetie I bet that you are the hit of the men's room locker
But I'm a runnin' late with an overload
So get your Adidas off a this road
I'm LA bound and I don't slow down for dead raccoons or joggers

Well without breakin' stride or losin' poise
He said you and that rig sure make some noise
But I can't talk now cause I'm racin' against the clocker
But it's just nine miles to Forkers Leap
And if you ain't afraid to race that heap
We'll see how that ol' rig holds up against a super jogger

Race I must be hearin' wrong
The boy's been runnin' in the sun too long
The only place he's racin' to is a doctor's
But before I could say thank you no
That fool yells ready get set go
And the race is on we're off and gone me and that maniac jogger

Well I could've left him far behind
But I played with him like a fish on a line
And I stayed about a half a mile behind that sucker
Then I pushed her up to forty-five
And he sees me comin' and he starts to fly
So I pushed her to sixty and shift to high and finally catch that jogger
And it wasn't easy

Now I'm doin' eighty and I turned to check
And he's stayin' right with me neck in neck
His hearts a thumpin' like my engine goin' pop pop pocker
Then he yells out I hope you're set
Cause I ain't shifted into second yet
Then he unwinds and leaves me behind eatin' the dust of a jogger

Then I see him joggin' up into the sky
And he yells hey thanks for the exercise
I hope that losin' this race was not too shockin'
Ya see my dad says heaven's no place to run
and I try to be an obedient son
So I have to come down to earth to do my joggin'

Well that's my story take it or leave it
My trucker buddies they believe it
So do those race car nuts and Harley hoggers
And I'm still drivin' much the same
Cept I don't call nobody names
And I tip my hat each time I pass one of them good old joggers

Hey here comes one now... Hey good buddy
How ya doin?
Want some gatorade?