""Oh, I'm exhausted. I've been on this street a thousand times. It's never looked so strange. The faces...so cold. In the distance a child is crying...fatherless...a bastard child, perhaps. My back aches, my heart aches, but my feet...my feet are resilient! Thank God I took off my heels and put on my Himalayan walking shoes!"

"I had been fighting a headwind and a steady 10 percent grade wearing too-small shoes and too-large chamois. Even though it had started to rain I knew I'd be snug and dry in my Shower's Pass Elite Jacket"