Thursday, January 15, 2009

Run Like A Girl!

This past fall when I went to SF for the Nike Womens Marathon, I was uncertain how I felt about their motto, which was "Run Like A Girl." Since then I have thought, contemplated and pondered this statement and have come up with nothing. Nothing offensive, nothing motivating, it's just a statement...A statement for Nike to use to motivate women who like the idea of getting behind anything GIRL, anything pink, and anything that they can shop for without thinking through their purchase. THEN last night as I was wearing my "Run Like A Girl" shirt that I purchased from NIKE Town direct I started thinking about the statement all over again and I may have hit a little mental breakthrough. Here are some of my answers to what it might mean to "Run Like A Girl"


Run when you can...all you mommies of small children...even if it is only 15 min...it is a HUGE accomplishment!

Run even if your hormones are getting the best of you...you WILL feel better...

Run with friends..kill 2 birds with one stone by exercising and chatting it up for 45min...kill 3 birds by having your run end at you favorite local coffee shop!

Run to get that excess baby weight off...

Run for your health, your family is depending on you...

4 comments:

Michelle said...

Rachel are you talking to me?!

Paula said...

Just make sure that coffee shop doesn't call for a hot chocolate with salted pretzels or whatever. K made me look that up the other day and it is 500 calories! It is better just not to know, isn't it? If you didn't know, you wouldn't actually gain any weight from drinking it, but now that you know. . .you will gain weight just by craving it!!! Isn't that crazy?

Melissa said...

It sounds like you're talking to ME. :) (My unofficial plan is to go for a run---and I use the term loosely, having not really run for some time now; perhaps brisk stroll punctuated with an occasional outburst of "jog" might be more accurate----tomorrow a.m. early. Feel free to ask me about it. If I avoid you completely, I didn't go. :)

Melissa said...

(reporting...{for me, not you}....I DID go...a mostly-walk-with about 3 minutes of what could be classified as "jogging"...3ish miles or so)