Nike Women’s Marathon

 

 

So earlier in the week I got a little bit excited when I found the above image over on Pinterest. 

 

Just look at all those little blue boxes on silver platters!  I needed to know more, so like some sort of Little Blue Box Sleuth, I clicked on the image and it led me to this…

 

 

Intriguing.  But also worrying.  Could it be that those tuxedo clad men are handing out little blue boxes at some sort of event that involves nothing but running for a very long time?  

 

After extensive research skim reading the article, I discovered that yes, yes it does.  Apparently when you run in any of the many Nike Women’s Marathons held in the good old US of A every year and you cross the finish line this is what you’re met with…

 

 

 

 

Yep, random men dressed in tuxedos and carrying silver platters with Tiffany & Co. boxes sitting on top.  That they give you.  For finishing.  Not for coming first or second or even third, but just for actually finishing.  It was enough for me to want to throw on a pair of hot pink nikes and take up running!

 

But then I looked into it a bit further and discovered that it costs a cool 200 big ones to enter the marathon.  So not only do you have to run for 42 kilometres, you also have to pay a fair bit of coin to do so.  Also, this is what the pendant looks like that you’re presented with at the end of the Nike Women’s Marathon…

 

 

 

Now I don’t know about you, but if I’m going to invest 200 bucks in 42 kilometres of torture running JUST to get a little blue box at the end of it, I reckon I’d probably like something a bit cuter than a pendant with the Nike Swoosh on it.  So it looks like it’s back to the couch and cheezel combo for me.  Ha.  AS IF.  I eat my cheezels standing up!