A goody bag?

Yesterday I did what has become my annual 5K run - the BUPA Great Winter Run, here in Edinburgh.  I had not run 5K since the same race last year.  I don't really enjoy running.  Walking is great.  Sprinting too, but running not really.  I think it is a great skill to have but to me it is not really that enjoyable. (Nor really exercise, but that is a different issue.)

Anyway, I got around  in just under 31 minutes which on one level is pretty crap, but I was satisfied with it in that:

• It is around Arthur's Seat a big hill/mountain in the centre of the city so the first part of the course is up a big incline
• I have not run like this for a year
• I was keeping an easy pace, making sure I was not getting out of breath at all

The Goody Bag.....

Enough of the excuses.  What amused me was the goody bag. I think I did a post like this last year, but again I was amazed at the contents, the bits they gave away with the T Shirt:

The crap it contained

• A quality long sleeve T shirt
• A bottle of powerade - sugar water....far from healthy
• A sampler tube of toothpaste
• Two samplers of deoderant
• A packet of tissues
• Jointace Gel - a massage oil for sore muscles
• A sampler of Dove body lotion
• A strepsil throat lozenge
• Biscuits
• Lo Salt salt substitute
• Arnica Gel
• PowerBar Shots
• An Eat Natural Bar

 It cracks me up how the goody bag is just a marketing opportunity for companies to get samples of all their crap into the hands of lots of their target market.