So, I like to think my blog has been a happy place, full of happy stories, occasional hysterical outbursts and a bit of neurotic lunacy thrown in for good measure. Well, I’m afraid it’s about to get grumpy. Very grumpy.
It all started with me spending yet another day in meetings at work and ended up with me wanting to rip up every single piece of pink clothing on sale in Runners Need.
After work – to get out of my mood – I went shopping for a high viz top and found myself faced with a wall of hot pink and no other colour options! Why is it that running clothes brands use so much pink in their collections? Who buys this stuff? Do they think all female runners want to dress like Renee Zellweger in Legally Blonde? Or perhaps they think all female runners like the attention they get from men wolf whistling and beeping their horns so much that they want to dress head to toe in pink just to make them really stand out. WE DO NOT!!
I know I’m not the only female runner who has had this issue so why do clothing manufacturers still do it? I looked around at the male running clothes and the colour ranges were immense – blue, black, red, yellow, orange. The women’s had a bit of red, some black and then just a sea of pink. After trying on a yellow high viz top in a men’s size small and deciding it was way too big for me, I gave in and bought a bright yellow tabard. So I now own a tabard and a bum bag but at least I don’t dress like Barbie!
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