Worst money you ever spent?

(i'm gonna disguise my voice so you don't recognize me:) Dude, leave all that crap home. Run for time. Screw the gizmos. What the heck do you care if you know the precise length of your run? Slave to your miles? Let the run come to you. Start your watch, run, stop it when done. Add time up at the end of the week and divide by average pace. It's good to have a little 'mystery' in your life. Especially in a sport so dominated by numbers we can loose sight why we were attracted to it in the first place.

Just trying to be as precise as possible. I train alone %100 of the time and over the last 5 years have seemed to have lost what seemed to be a good intuition about pace; I have been showing up to races and bombing after going out too hard thinking I would hold "x" pace. So have wondered, maybe my training paces are not what I think they are.

Only $1K? Well, you may have gotten off easy on that one.

Frugal wrote:

So have wondered, maybe my training paces are not what I think they are.

A tip: find a known measured distance of at least 1/2 mile. Country blocks typically have 'monument boxes' located each 1/2 mile and in the middle of intersections. They are round w/dimpled lids, 18" in circumference. Or, head onto the local track at normal training pace for as little as 1/2 mile and, there you go, you'll know how fast you run.

$70 Camelback--used it once, started leaking, new nozzle, still leaks. don't buy one of those pieces of trash! i used it for working construction, biking (long rides of 3+ hours) and going to the beach.

$100 Nike Ventulus+ freakin piece of crap shoes. big ol' toe box

$80 adidas sunglasses on ebay that were freaking huge on me.

$40 on shorts! yeah, that's right. i spent that much on a pair of navy-blue Quiksilver shorts that i thought were the tightest shorts ever. i wore them outside on a 90+ degree day, and they faded to a purple! aw crap!

this is depressing, i need to stop thinking about this and go ride my skateboard! atleast i got that for a b-day present and i love it!

hands down, $100,000 on an MBA. definitely the worst educational investment out there, except if you go to a top 10 program. not even a top 15 program is worth the investment.

text books every semester

I went to a private school. Minnesota School of Business and Globe College. What a joke. The credits won't even transfer.

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never been kissed wrote:

whats the "clap"

It's an old term for gonorrhea (sp?). Bitch stole my watch, too...I had forgotten about that..

I thought the clap stood for chlamydia?

"Best money ever spent"...recruiting Jason Rexing

well once i had this real crumbly $50note that was falling apart at the side

dunno what i brought with it, but it was the worst bit of money that i ever spent.

Oceans 12

How about fricken cell phone companies? Every one of them figures out a way to screw you over and if you think about how much you pay a year to those bastards it really is a waste

I got a Ricky Williams jersey one day before he retired. Thats just not cool.

Spent several thousand dollars of my own money on a FAT timing system three years ago and I've hardly used it at all. I was a total f***face for buying it.

$8 dollars on a Jersey Mike's Sub only to drop it on the ground, so pissed, they are the best subs.

Also any money I have spent on alcohol where I have thrown up after, thats a f***ing waste of money!!!

Several hundred on the Timex GPS setup only to have the much superior Garmin come out 6 months later, work ten times better and best of all does not make me feel like a gay jogger wearing that f***ing arm band.

I have to nominate an old college buddy named Cole H. for this (not a runner). Being in love with his college sweetheart, he bought one of those semi-convincing false diamond "Cubic Zirconium" engagement/wedding rings for his fiancee for $49. Cole saw it on some late-night television offer.

Cole couldn't afford a genuine diamond ring and she might have been OK with that, but he f***ed up when he tried to impress her and told her it was a real diamond. Damn if these bogus things didn't increase in popularity and the TV ad spots played more and more. I'm sure Cole was sweating. She bought it for a couple of months until she happened to see her rock being advertised on TV for $49. To add to the misery of it, apparently she ws with her Mom at the time.

Needless to say, that was probably the most regrettable $49 I've ever seen someone part with.

$4.39 for a chicken club wrap at subway. f***in disgusting.