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My Favorite Insurance Ad

By Colleen @colleenalicia · On January 11, 2013

Runner’s World magazine keeps publishing advertisements for this:

Do you have any idea what this is trying to sell?  Every time I see it, I think it’s an ad for insurance or tampons.  It turns out it’s neither.  Instead, it’s an ad for “Gear Lending” at Westin Hotel & Resorts.  Apparently some people fly around a lot and don’t remember to bring their workout gear, or can’t fit it in their bags.  I wouldn’t know about this, because I never go anywhere.  Luckily, for people that do, it only costs $5 to wear used workout gear.  This doesn’t sound remotely attractive to me, but the most upsetting part is that they don’t even provide the clothes pictured in the ad.  If I’m going to workout in used clothes, I should get to look like I’m in a tampon commercial.

Anyway, thank you Runner’s World, for tweeting this ad in addition to printing it in your magazine, so I can be reminded of how much I don’t want to wear old used running clothes while I’m traveling!

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I must confess, I started running at a very early age. Sadly, my runs were unblogumented until around age 23, so you'll have to use your imagination for all the runs I went on before that. Running has always been my go-to sport, but sadly, I spend a good amount of my time with chronic injuries. I have learned to entertain myself athletically with other pursuits such as kettlebell, yoga, and bikini competitions, when I can't run. In addition to my unique talent for working out and then blogging about it, I am an amateur puppy stylist and photographer, television enthusiast, and I'm usually CPR/AED certified, but I would still prefer if you didn't pass out when we're together.

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    I’m Colleen. I started this blog when I was 23 years old and training for my first marathon. I was single, semi-employed, generally directionless in life, and had a lot of free time on my hands. I have a lot less free time now, but I still love to come here and dump my rambling, unedited thoughts after a workout or race once in a while.

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