Brooks Running Apparel (I splurged!) and Review

Let the countdown begin... 19 days until Cleveland

This week I had the unfortunate pleasure of having to travel for work on Sunday.  I absolutely despise flying on Sunday for work seeing as the weekends are so short already and I'm really not a huge fan of my job. I ended up not arriving to the hotel until almost midnight so I scratched the waking up early Monday morning running plan and took another rest day.  My quads were still really sore from the 20 so I rationalized it was needed.  Although when I arrived home last night I had a nice little package waiting by the front door and my plans for rest nearly changed.

A week and half ago the online shopping bug hit big time.  I made a substantial purchase on brooksrunning.com of which nothing was on sale but everything I had to have.  Two tanks (one to support breast cancer research), a freaking cute shirt, another shirt just because, and shorts (I'm on the hunt for the perfect pair for me on long runs).  Once I unwrapped all my goodies faster than a kid on Christmas morning I nearly went for a run despite my exhaustion, hunger, and the pouring rain.  In the end the weather and my hunger won and I stayed home to inhale leftovers and watch Heroes.  Never one to deny myself too long I had to try out the new shorts (it was too cold for any of the tops) on my easy, peasy 4 miles this afternoon.

First thing I noticed when I opened the package - there's no drawstring!  Weird, because the picture of the pacer short has a drawstring.  Whatever.  According to the description this is an updated "creep-proof" short.  I could use a lot less creep in my shorts.  No seriously we all hate picking the shorts out every few minutes on the run.  And with my larger than life thighs this is a little too common with running shorts.  The shorts are incredibly comfortable and stretchy. No pulling on my hips or hugging my thighs.  That's a plus in my book...  They worked well enough on the run.  The right leg started as a creeper shortly into the run but then I didn't it stopped and behaved after the first mile.   I'll try them out on different length runs but I don't see them being my new long run shorts which was my hope and desire in the initial purchase. Now I need the warmer temps back to try out the other purchases!