The Day My CORE Arrived

My birthday is mid-June (Flag Day to be exact), so growing up my presents were always spread out – Christmas in December and then six months later, my birthday. As I have gotten older, the excitement around Christmas has changed from focusing on myself to my children; unfortunately, I cannot say the same for my birthday. Instead of transferring excitement, it’s just sort of dissipated.

This year – while it isn’t quite my birthday yet – it seems that I have gotten something of a birthday present that’s given me quite a bit of excitement. The kind folks over at SKORA Running decided to mail me a pair of shoes to review – for free! To make the excitement even

Peek-a-Boo

greater, I wasn’t entirely sure of the shoes they would be sending my direction. I had suggested and hinted that I would really like to have a go at the CORE, but I have a tendency to lack clarity – ask my wife… While I had a pretty good suspicion that I would be receiving the CORE, I hadn’t a foggy as to the colorway.

They shipped the package and sent me the tracking number. It was FedEx, and I’m not sure if you’ve ever tracked a package shipped by FedEx, but it isn’t nearly as exciting as UPS. UPS is pretty good about sending out updates, not FedEx. All I knew was the package was shipped and, for what seemed like weeks, was stuck somewhere on a truck in the Bermuda Triangle. FedEx put an estimated delivery date of May 15th, so imagine my surprise when I came home from my run this morning and there on my doorstep was a nice little package about the size of a shoebox.

It really was like Christmas. I took the package inside and grabbed the butcher knife as quick as I could to rip into the box. I did my best not to look at the end of the shoebox that tells you the details of the shoe inside, and went straight to flopping the top open and admiring my brand new blue and fluorescent yellow CORE.

I only wear shoes to run, but I couldn’t help putting these guys on for the remainder of the day. I’m not sure what they do over at SKORA, but I’m pretty sure they have Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother on payroll. And while I haven’t had a chance to run in them yet, I have a feeling they will be amazing.

Sexy shoes…