I’ve been nosying at subscription boxes lately, I like the idea of getting mystery parcels through the post and not knowing what the contents are in advance, and when I came across one aimed specifically at runners I had to give it a try. You can sign up for a 1, 3 or 12 month subscription, or pay a little more for a one-off box, which is what I did for myself and J, because she’d sulk if she didn’t get a go 😛 Mystery boxes of running gadgets are right up her street 😛
If you want to skip the prequel waffle and just get straight to the box contents, jump forward about three paragraphs to the title… First, go and get yourself a drink and a snack – this is a MEGA long one…
On the Joggbox website, the only real difference in the profiles I set up for us were age, shoe size and clothes size, and it didn’t really ask us any questions about type of running, distances, preferred nutrition etc., so I wasn’t expecting a huge degree of variety in the contents of the two boxes. They both turned up on the same day, I was out for mine and the courier very kindly put it in a box by my back door which was very conspicuously half full of water – tannin stained water from some leaves that had gotten in from autumn. Combine this with a hole in the plastic envelope bag cover thing and my box was somewhat water-logged by the time I got to it about 2 hours later.
Blue Runnings 