Roughly the equivalent of 32 packs of cigarettes. At 20 a day, that's less than 5 weeks worth. And your shoes will last you 500+ miles per pair. At, say, 40 miles per week, that's 25 weeks of running. A bargain.
Just in case you are wondering why I'm making this particular comparison, I gave up smoking 8 years ago today!!! I think I'll treat myself to a new pair of shoes in celebration.
As there aren't any proper running shops near me, I buy my running things from catalogues and on-line. As far as spending too much goes and then feeling guilty about it, I try to spread my purchases over a couple of different shop web sites, so it seems less. Only when my credit card bill comes in do I feel the pain...
The Kayano's are worth the cash. A friend of mine used to work in a sports shop and sell good running shoes. If he was ever questioned about the high price of thoise running shoes he used to say that the customer essentially had a choice between good shoes and comfortable running or cheap shoes and some trips to the physio to sort out the injuries. Either way, the cost was roughly the same.
I have a theory that money in a bank account is only a figure on a piece of paper
If you go into negative numbers then its the bank managers worry not yours
I'd like to thank Barclays for making this theory possible and also apologise to the wife of the bank manager there who had to take 6 months off work for stress related illness whilst I worked on this theory
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Had booze all weekend... Given up again!
But really... 1 pair Kayano, 1 pair DS Trainer
Just in case you are wondering why I'm making this particular comparison, I gave up smoking 8 years ago today!!! I think I'll treat myself to a new pair of shoes in celebration.
DS Trainer VII £59.99
Plus P&P at www.ontherun.co.uk
Bargain!
If you go into negative numbers then its the bank managers worry not yours
I'd like to thank Barclays for making this theory possible and also apologise to the wife of the bank manager there who had to take 6 months off work for stress related illness whilst I worked on this theory
Tim would probably say something like "well atleast you didn't return any!"
He'd know what I mean!