From the last half-marathon race I did I won a $130 voucher to Joggers World. Yesterday I went in there to find things to spend it on, and I don’t need running shoes because I already have three pairs that I rotate between, so I spoke to an informative person about electrolyte, energy, and carbohydrate drinks. Between the massive amounts of drinks, energy bars, and a pair of socks this all came to $130, but then I told them how they owed me $130.
They told me I had to go and pick up the piece of paper that says this from the SARRC (South Australian Road Runners Club). This is great, but when I went to the SARRC office straight from Joggers World, I discovered that no one is in either of their two offices on Mondays. Why they don’t just have one person in on Monday and one person in on Tuesday is beyond me, because then people could go there any day of the week without dissappointment. So today after passing back through the city I drop back in to pick up the voucher from SARRC, and go straight back to Joggers World. I gather the dozen or so items up onto the counter, and after much hassle of them finding out the ‘codes’ for all the items, they inform me that the voucher can only be used on shoes. Why!! It’s like having a gift voucher for a record store that you can only spend on rock music – no jazz, no classical, just rock music. Since I can’t go running for the next 6 weeks whilst I’m waiting for a big knife wound in my back to heal, I couldn’t really justify adding a fourth pair of running shoes to my rotational pool, so I just took the voucher and walked out.
If anyone would like to buy a $130 “shoe” voucher for Joggers World for $129 you’re welcome 
*cough* *tight-arse* *cough* hehehe. It doesn’t have an expiry date, so I guess I’ll just leave it for now. But my quest for electrolyte, energy, and carbohydrate fluids that don’t cost more than beer is still on. And seriously, most of these performance drinks they sell costs more than beer. Does it really cost so much money to construct these drinks? You can make your own electrolyte replacement fluids using water, salt, bi-carb soda and sugar. Sure it has vomit-inducing taste and probably doesn’t work as well as this commercial stuff, but apart from flavourings, what really is in these sports performance drinks? Perhaps when I finish reading this book “Clinical Sports Nutrition” I’ll just be able to make my own sports performance drinks:
Speaking of which, I should hurry up and finish reading it so I can read the other textbooks and the cookbooks in the series.
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Nar it states very clearly that it’s a shoe voucher, but I just hadn’t read it since I went directly from SARRC. It’s fair enough, just unfortunate that I had to go to four places to find this out!
That is so annoying. I thought the “legal requirement” for vouchers was that it has to state it on the voucher… Did the voucher say conditions apply or anything like that? Tell me what stuff you wanted, and I’ll go in and ask them to kindly cough up…
What a con!
I’m sick of all these conditions and adverising crap… I am so cynical these days….