A good way to spend five bucks

So since last Thursday I’ve managed to post......not a single entry on this blog.  Part of this owes to the fact that I’ve been really drained from school and everything.  Training has kinda fallen off track a bit, but it should be back now.  I’ve switched my training plant a bit for the marathon in the hopes of maybe targeting a really good time for my second marathon.  We’ll see how it goes I mean I have nothing to lose right? Other than maybe a slow running time.  So today’s post which is usually supposed to be a review is not so much a review in the strictest of senses.

MEC which is a co-operative based in Canada that has a focus on outdoorsey type of things.  A lot of people envisage it with things like going to go buy a tent, sleeping bag, a jacket for the north pole.  What I didn’t realize till a few years ago is that they really sell a lot more than your standard outdoors type.  I bought all of my climbing gear from there (and honestly I don’t know where else I would go and get out other than the climbing gyms)  Ended up getting out with a decent amount of gear for not that much.  Fast forward to about a year ago, I started learning how to do my own tuneups on my snow board, I got all the required stuff to do it from there too.  And once again you save a lot of money compared to if you went to an actual shop or store that caters to snow sports.  Not only that I actually ran into someone who tuned skis for the Canada race team, and learned a ton about tips, tricks and life savers in the process.  And it’s like that for pretty much anything you would go and get there.  You get it cheaper, and you can probably find someone who will answer all of your questions and teach you a thing or two.  They’ll be cheerful about it too.  I have nothing bad to speak of them, especially when something as basic as gels are sometimes cheaper by 50 cents on more, it’s staggering.  So yes it might cost you five bucks to get a general membership, but it’s probably going to be one of the best things that you spend five bucks on, not only do you save a lot of money, but you can always go find stuff that has good workmanship and fantastic customer service for the most part.