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06 October 2008 ~ 7 Comments

A Running Princess

I laced up the running shoes for today’s run, and as I took a couple steps I thought to myself, “Hmm… something feels wrong.” But I still walked out the door.

I usually walk to the entrance of my neighborhood to warm-up a little and begin my run from that point. As I was walking, I thought to myself, “Hmm… something still feels wrong. I think there is a rock in my shoe.”

Just before I got to the “official starting line”, I thought to myself, “Yep… something is definitely wrong. I think I have a boulder in my shoe.” Thus I sat down on the side of the road and took off my shoes to investigate.

Upon initial inspection, I couldn’t find anything. But I took out the factory insole and checked under that. Sure enough, I found my “boulder”.

The "Pea" in my Running Shoe

Does the story of “The Princess and the Pea” come to anyone else’s mind?

7 Responses to “A Running Princess”

  1. bobbi 6 October 2008 at 10:04 pm Permalink

    cute so cute!

  2. Rachel 7 October 2008 at 7:13 am Permalink

    LOL funny :-)

  3. LVGurl 7 October 2008 at 9:12 am Permalink

    HA! I love the pen as size reference!

    That little pebble would drive me nuts, too!

  4. ~moe~ 7 October 2008 at 6:44 pm Permalink

    This totally happened to me on Sunday! I took off my shoe, shook it out and thought I had lost my boulder. By mile 13 or so, it was back and rolling around in my shoe. By then I couldn’t stop or I’d totally screw up my pace and I was annoyed. So I kept shifting it from side to side. Ugh.

  5. Jill 8 October 2008 at 7:35 am Permalink

    Thanks for appreciating my situation folks!

    ~moe~: You had a rock in your shoe during your race? Ugh.. that would be the worst!

  6. tgorourke 9 October 2008 at 6:29 pm Permalink

    Wow, what is that little speck?! ha ha ha.

    good thing you stopped to check it out before you started, and thanks so much for the shout-out last week. I’m just getting caught up on everyone’s blogs now.


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