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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten.. Each morning in Africa a lion awakes - it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.


No matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up you had better be running!



Saturday, September 15, 2012

Hoping for knowledgeable staff


Yesterday I accompanied a friend (who is a far more accomplished runner than me) into the city to pickup our race packs for tomorrow’s Sydney Marathon. There is always something special about a home town marathon and one that just makes you proud of your city and what so many people can achieve together in a positive way.

Now after negotiating our way to the Expo and picking up the numbers etc, we were just ambling about and decided to pop into a well known mainstream sports shop. In hind sight we must have looked like a right number of rookies holding our race bags and we were descended on by two young sales folks who must have thought us suckers.

We were looking through the new arrivals of shoes and both know exactly what we like and what we don’t like, but we seemed to have this lot insisting that we try on shoes that we would never wear in a month of Sundays. Their knowledge of things was also patchy at best.

As much as we politely refused, they kept insisting. Kudos to them for keeping up though.

Eventually the one girl said - ‘look I am a runner, I know what I am talking about’. ‘So are we’, we replied. ‘Yes but I have run a half marathon’, she exclaimed. At that point my mate looked at me and we just didn’t have the energy to continue with things and left the shop.

Disappointing to see that even though I rarely go into these sorts of shops, they still haven’t bothered to even update staff with even a basic knowledge of what they are selling the customer.

Running together (while hoping for informed views on shoes), stride for stride on a life changing ride! -- Sean Muller

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