With great gear comes great responsibility...

So, today my mom and I set sail on a 3 hour drive to drop me back off in Austin. And since I'm a retail merchandising (cough shopping cough) major, and she's the mother of a retail merchandising major, we had to stop in the outlet malls along our way there.

Why is this relevant?

Cause I got mad fitness equipment man!

We first stopped off in the Nike outlet store, because I'd been convinced to try out the Nike+ Sportband. I'm really excited to run with it, hopefully going to bust it out Wednesday. Meanwhile, it's going to get charged and sit all spiffy on my wrist tomorrow. Cause it's a watch too! Watch.

Second, I grabbed a sweet jump rope also from Nike. It's an adjustable speed rope, and I'll write more about it later. Let's just say, it's part 3 of my plan. Not a watch.

Then I went on an epic quest to find the perfect running shirt. Why epic? Let's take it back a bit, and you'll see.
I live in Texas. Texas is HOT. Now, my part of Texas, the Austin variety, was pretty cool this winter. We actually had snow! I'd never seen snow before!

Miracle.

So I got to run in my favorite outfit ever for the first couple of weeks of C25K. That would be Nike running shorts, sports bra (NOT NIKE!!!!), and Nike running jacket I scored for $20 a year ago at the Nike outlet. It's comfy, cozy, and jackets give lots of support to girls. However, during my last run I realized this outfit was no longer practical. Its getting too hot to run in long sleeves, and I can't run late at night when it is cool enough, its too dangerous downtown. So I go to look for some running shirts. I prefer my running shirts to be loose fitting and long. Not too picky of criteria, yes? Apparently not. Neither Reebox, Adidas, or New Balance had anything that wasn't skin tight or racer back. I don't run for practice in racer backs on principle, in the Texas sun you get burned like crazy and I have tendency to forget sunscreen. I finally caved and went into Under Armor which I cheat on Nike with, but its kind of a pricey. Scored the perfect shirt for $20. Not too bad. Not as good as B.Jones, but we can't all be Goodwill gurus.

But the biggest, best part of this new equipment spree was what my dad surprised me with when I got home from Austin this weekend.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is a NEW HEAVY BAG.
I wish I had a picture of the old one.
It was red, leather softened with age, and literally had duck tape wrapped around the middle to keep it together from 2 separate times where it was split it half by back kicks, first time by my 9 blackbelt holding godfather, and the 2nd time by me. I loved that ol' bag, and I'm glad it was passed on to a young martial artist in the neighborhood. But as sad as I was initially to see my bad was gone...um, hello? That new bag is amazing!

All in all, excited to use my new gear as soon as possible!