Revolutionizing the Running World

Or not.

Here's a long story about running belts.
I need one for longer distances, and it took me a few less than successful long runs to figure that out.
So off I went to Sports Authority where they pretty much had nothing to choose from.

I went in hoping to find thisIsn't she gorgeous?

But alas, they didn't have this one. This stop at Sports Authority came towards the end of about a hundred errands, so in my desperation for a belt, and just wanting to go home already I picked up one of theseCute, right?
Completely useless though.
A few days later I set out for what was supposed to be an eleven mile run, but didn't get even half a mile out before realizing that it just wasn't going to work.
Oh, the jiggling.
No amount of adjusting could make this puppy hold tolerably still.

What to do?
Running belts do not come cheap, and with Jordans school and work schedule and my unwillingness to go on errands with all three of the girls (Adelaide is crazy) it'll be a little while before I can exchange the one I have for the one I want.

So in the meantime I came up with thisI know it doesn't look like much, but I love it!
I went to Joanns and bought some sporty, spandexy, stretchy fabric (for under seven dollars with a coupon, by the way AND that was for a whole yard, I think I only used about half of it... That's $3.50 yall!) and put this together.
It's just a band, about five inches tall, but it's basically a pocket the entire way around. I sewed it so that there's a fold at the top inside of the pocket so that my cell phone and my mp3 player won't fall out, and I put in seams to serve as little compartments to keep things from jiggling all over the place.
I made a compartment so that I could fit a water bottle in there and attached an elastic loop to hook over the top and keep it in place.
Today I went out for a long run, and it worked like a dream! It fits snugly right around my lower torso and there was no annoying water bottle bouncing! In addition to my water, phone and mp3 player, I kept a handy little map in there (new route) and everything stayed right where it was supposed to, and I could get things in and out easily as I needed them. Not to mention that since it's a pocket the entire way around, I have plenty room for anything else I might need to bring with me.
I'm ridiculously happy with it, hence my going on and on about it. I'll have to see how it holds up though, I'm not sure how long the stretch will be good for, and it's possible that in the summer it might make me crazy having such a thick band all the way around my waist, but for now it's just right!
And I'm excited.
The End.

Good story, right?