Pooks, I can understand this! Over our years of cycling together, and those good years when we could afford to each buy whatever we needed/wanted, whenever we found something great, we'd both buy it. Not that we like to look like the "bobsie twins", but when something works, why buy something different?

Luckily the GPS/HRM units tell us the name when we turn the power on, and his chest strap is considerably larger than mine, but they are otherwise identical. And then there are the prescription riding glasses. First road ride we did together this year and the first half of the ride was so awful for me...it was cold, and I was terribly out of sorts, and my glasses seemed to be kind of....dirty...smeary....blurry. We stopped about halfway through and I realized I was wearing *his* prescription lenses!! He even has holes drilled in the plastic outer lens to reduce fogging and I didn't notice until then! Once we swapped, the ride got better!

Enjoy your reunion with your dear shoes and have an awesome ride!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~