I Made the Team?

I found out the other day that I will be on The Runners Roost Race Team.  Runners Roost is a specialty running store here in Denver, and every year they sponsor a certain number of people that are runners.  Now the good thing is that one does not have to be fast to be on the race team, which is a damn good thing, because I’m far from fast.  Well, I’m not slow, and I guess for my age, I don’t do too bad.  We get some free clothing, but mostly we get huge discounts on everything they carry in the store.  Now there is what I call the “A” team on the race team.  These are runners that have been sponsored by The Roost before.  These guys do get mostly free stuff.  I’m a newbie this year along with a few others, and we are the “B” team, or you could call us the JV team.  I remember when I first got into running and went shopping for new shoes at The Roost.  I felt kind of intimidated because I was new to the sport, and I was afraid of looking like a stooge.  But the people there were real nice, and talked to me about how I run and came up with some suggestions for shoes.  They were never pushy, so I don’t think they are on commission, they were just some very knowledgeable people that knew their stuff.  Now that they sponsor me, I feel that I can go in there now and tell them how what running really is all about!  Yeah right.