Rocky Road, a new running resource blogger is born

Three cheers for the customer service at Moti . After a technically-sort-of-analysis-thingy and subsequent choice in running shoes, I set out last week for a run only to end up with a blister on my right foot. I wasn't best pleased and, as I had worn them outside, thought I was stuck with them. Forever.

However when I rang Moti, from where I'd bought them (ready for a....your showy techy stuff is rubbish rant), the man on the end of the phone told me to just pop in and we'll get it sorted! hmmm I thought. So I 'popped' (as you do) back in and the staff were brilliant. Looking at the choice I'd made, because I thought (against the moti man's advise- I confess) the Asics felt more cushioned, it became apparent that the inner sock of the trainer was causing the problem. This is because I have a narrow foot and therefore far better suited to the....hurrah....more mean, sleek looking Mizuno's. See, even when I try to be uncool.........I just can't do it. Now you know.

The proof was in the pudding; tonight Su and I did our usual route and after 4 reasonably paced miles I was comfortable, blister-free and could've happily carried on. Result.

Off the back of these pages I have joined the Bristol Running Resource blog, It's basically there as a......well, running resource.....and pretty informative too. I arranged to meet Mike, who set up the resource blog, yesterday at caff on Gloucester road. I would have given the place a plug, but not only was the wireless (at best) sssllllloooow, the guy who served me had seriously dirty nails, plucked eyebrows and never once spoke to me whilst I ordered my very healthy herbal tea. Plain rude. And, when I sat down to wait for Mike, the man at the next table tutted because.............I guess he didn't want anyone sitting at the table next to the table he was sitting at.....or something.

Anyway Mike (who I recognised from his mug shot on the blog), arrived and unashamedly ordered a coffee and a Rocky Road cake. Okay, maybe he deserved to wolf it down right in front of me as he had cycled to and from work, whereas I had driven the whole 0.9 miles from my house to the meeting place, clearly adding to my carbon foot-print, my adipose tissue and my parking ticket collection.

That is where a new running resource blogger was born, not sure how credible I'll be......when you get a bloke who looks like he has the metabolism of Haile Gabre-Selassie worrying about the possible prospect of man-boobs (sorry mate), you have question whether Playtex are missing a huge marketing opportunity or whether I'm simply just not eating enough Rocky Road.