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That’s not really what I look like when I’m running, is it?

Published on 01/04/08
by Maureen

Check out your shuffle pics. When I saw mine I was like

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I mean, I don’t consider myself a truly vain person. I know not every picture of me is going to look like my fairy-princess senior prom picture. But I also don’t PAY for pictures that look like THAT. Anyway, I’m sure my dad has a good five dozen of them on his digital camera. Which he will never print out. Because, let’s face it, unless you won, you’re never going to do anything with that photo.

Marathonfoto or a similar organization seems to show up at nearly every race these days. And I have to wonder how they make a profit. It’s expensive to pay a photographer, organize the photos, link all the photos to their people and send out all the emails, even in the age where the majority of that process is digital. I don’t know a single person who wold buy their 8K photo. Maybe a few would buy the marathon photo, but Jaysus, I think I’ll take my own photos for $80 a pop, thank you very much.

I guess it would be different if I felt like these pictures were anything special. I run five days a week. I spend as much time running in a week as I do teasing my co-workers, drinking coffee or passing out in font of the TV on the couch. And I don’t have pictures of me doing those thing. (Thank God. Me passing out on the couch can’t be pretty.) You buy those cheesy prom pictures because you only get to go to prom maybe one to three times. You can run as much as you want. I never run with the intention of having my picture taken because that would be like planning on having your picture taken on your walk to the Dunkin. It only happens if you’re Britney Spears.

There’s got to be someone who likes these piece of shit pictures, and uses them for something other than stealing the samples to prove they actually ran. I just don’t know of anyone.

The run is over. Now what?

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