Bring the Bling

There are a lot of reasons why people run. Here are some of mine:

1. It's quiet time
2. It makes me mellower for the rest of the day
3. It helps me sleep better
4. It makes my pants fit
5. My iPod mix is too fantastic
6. Running gear is super cute and fun to collect
7. I like to surprise the doctor with my heart rate and blood pressure
8. It makes me feel just a little like a badass

But let us not discount the bling. Your bling is your medal, your prize for running a race. It is GREAT to get bling!

Those people who did the Goofy Challenge a couple of weekends ago got totally blinged out. They got a medal for the half, then a medal for the full marathon, and then a superlative medal for doing both. That amounts to

BLING

BLING

BLING!!!

Check out Chris's bling:

Oh, yes! In addition to the medals, you get shirts and a super cool special bib.

And here's Jeremy and Dawn wearing their bling. Look at how they are smiling, even after running 39.3 miles in two days

And Heather made her Goofy bling into a Bling Tableau, if you will . . .

That's the Baby Mussel, from the Musselman Tri -- Heather says that every participant got one of those little dudes, which they then take to cool places and photograph -- if you check out the map on the Musselman website, you will see that the Baby Mussels have gone all over the place.

If you do a lot of races, you need to do something with all this bling. You can buy a cool bling hanger:

This is from the goneforarun.com website, which sells marvelous bling hangers

Red Felter Eileen is the envy of all of us, because her husband made her one:

I don't have a whole lot of this stuff, but am thinking of buying some kind of holder, because the bling holder I've been relying on doesn't work out so well: