Waltham Y Exec Dir Application

8/6/2014

Spent 4 hours approx 1230 AM - 430 AM 7/6/2014, filling out a very lengthy job application I found at the YMCA website, to apply as is traditional for the Waltham YMCA Executive Director Position.

Accidentally noted in 'legal skill' section, that I defeated 82% of my fellow-test takers on the Law School Aptititude Test. Then when I returned to correct the error I could not correct the error. It was a typo. Actually I defeated 62%. When I tried to re-enter the application to correct the error I could not.

I filled out the questions best I could, when they demanded what month of what year I moved into where I live, I just sort of guessed, because it was long ago, but I did the best I could. And so it went with a few questions for which answers were demanded, re which, no way I could remember exactly which month I did something 10 years ago.

After I went through the 4-hour process, I got a pdf from the online program I was dealing with, showing part of the info I submitted:

PDF record of part of Waltham Y Exec Director Application

The program demanded a cover-letter from me, which it did not include in the pdf output it produced at the end:

Greater Boston YMCA cover letter

At the end of the process, I felt like 'Paul struck down by his vision of Christ'. Because I saw in my life, a strangely moving mix of: god, heroism, endurance of persecution, tragedy, achievement, talent, and some other things.

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9/2/2014

August 27, I responded to the Greater Boston Y's email of August 6 to me, re my application for Executive Director job at Waltham YMCA (their only communication with me so far re my application):

August Response to Email from Y re Job

This time, and also last time a couple of years ago, the the best I could get from the  'Greater (than Hobbs)' Boston YMCA re my application was a machine-generated auto-response, produced in 0.0053 nanoseconds.

I've been angry about this job, because though not a talkative person I've encountered at least a half-dozen persons some of them important, who express contempt for the Greater Boston YMCA hiring practices. Absent encountering those, I would be my usual mild-tempered mild-mannered self. Hypothetically this has to do with my human nature: for thousands of generations, humans have lived in tribes wherein it makes natural sense to be angry when several persons agree with you but mild-tempered otherwise.

Points coming to mind lately (my opinions as of now):

1. It's comically pretentious when people pretend that some job position requires much more experience than is actually necessary. Fact is the importance of 'experience' varies widely depending upon the position in question. Overemphasis on experience, leads to underemphasis with regards to other factors. Dishonesty in terms of how important a given employment-placement criteria is, gives rise to a generally dishonest and incompetent organizational culture, featuring lies leading to poor performance.

2. The YMCA Administrators serve the YMCA not vice-versa. YMCA Administrators overemphasizing criteria they are strong in, is something that serves not the YMCA but the YMCA administrators.

3. Administrators who make hiring decisions excluding those who are more competent than themselves is obviously unfortunate.

4. Administrators excluding from the workplace persons who are more attractive than themselves is obviously a case of something going wrong.

5. It contradicts the spirit of Employment Law, when employers overemphasize experience, when judging a disadvantaged applicant who is accomplished talented skilled and competent. This because the disadvantage makes it difficult to obtain experience.

6. It contradicts the spirit of Employment Law, when employers trash persons who go to the top whenever 'experience' is not an issue, simply because said trashed persons lack 'experience'.

7. The 'experienced' persons that the experience-obsessed gush over, are merely examples of persons who have occupied important positions for years without accomplishing anything beyond the mediocre.

8. There is the supervised, paid, on-the-job experience they are obsessed with. Then there are other types of experience that can be at least as important: the simply having been alive for many years; the 'experience' of time spent reading info sources; the 'experience' of time spent writing about the subjects read info sources are concerned with; the 'experience' of self-supervised projects; the 'experiences' one has when not on the job.

9. They value 'experience' so much. Not because it allows for the 'experienced' person to make mistakes when confronted with things he has not dealt with before, but because such experiences involving new things, improve the persons's ability to deal with various possible events. Therefore, they value instances wherein an 'administrator' or some such pretentiously-titled critter encounters something new. How then is it, that they fail to value 'inexperienced' persons, seeing that the 'inexperienced' persons have more learning experiences dealing with new things, compared to the 'experienced' persons?

10. Obsessive emphasis of 'experience', leads to a de-emphasis regarding voice, personality, appearance, intelligence, and sexiness (qualities which carry no weight with the typicalists who dominate these parts). Relatedly, in this geographical area there are large numbers of very public displays of charity for those who are the opposite of being talented/gifted, yet concern for the talented or gifted is absent. It defies the Spirit of the Laws, that employers fail to accomodate talented inexperienced persons by providing on-the-job training (OJT), allowing for a job to be split between an inexperienced but accomplished person and an experienced person, etc.

11. The C in YMCA stands for Christian, not Catamite. Scripture describes the 'gifts of the spirit': "God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues" (1 Cor 12:28). These gifts are not bestowed by way of human credentials. Obsessive overemphasis regarding human-bestowed credentials leads to serious damage by way of underemphasis re abilities of the 'gifts of the spirit' type.

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220 yd runs week in review--breathing, length of paces, chant--tactical implications

Review of Personal History of 220 yd Runs

My current personal record for average length of pace over 220 yds: 55 inches per pace

Reviewing the info online after the April 26 run, I discovered that while running I sometimes hold my breath, or simply do not breathe for a while after exhaling, and that this is supposed to be a bad idea. So starting with the April 29 workout, I adhered to an inhale for 4 paces, exhale for 4 paces breathing rhythm.

Despite the 'bad habit' of holding my breath and pausing after exhalation before inhalation, apparently I had been prior to April 29, inhaling at about the same rate as you do when you inhale every four paces.

Looks like the inhaling for four paces and exhaling for four paces, becomes insufficient as a source of air after the first 165 yds or so of the 220 yd run.

During the past week, I figured out how to synchronize the breathing with the chanting (chanting in the mind, not out loud) so as to be able to inhale for four paces and exhale for four paces while at the same time chanting in my mind (I can't chant and count paces at the same time). When I do this, the number of times I have completed the chant tells me how much of the run I have completed.

I find in swimming and in track, it improves performance both in general and in terms of per level of effort expended, when one always knows what fraction of the distance one has to complete, that one has already completed.

But this combining inhalation slash exhalation per a set number of paces with chanting in my mind, will be a challenge when I switch to trying out the inhaling for three paces and exhaling for three paces breathing rhythm.

It may be necessary to re-write the chant so as to be able to synchronize it with the inhale for 3 paces, exhale for 3 paces pattern.

Looking at the speed generated per level of effort put into the run ratio, I find that chanting and counting paces are both better than doing neither. Seems counting paces is a little better than chanting in this regard.

Seems that for approaching maximum speeds running one 220 yd run or several 220 yd runs one after the other, chanting produces the best results.

So apparently, counting paces during the run produces the best performance per unit of effort expended ratio (good for the usual practice session) whereas chanting works the best when it comes to maximizing effort and energy expended during a run or series of runs (effort to set new personal records).

My review of my data for April 22 to May 2 shows the long-paced running does indeed sometimes produce both fast times and also 220 yd runs featuring a long average pace length, significantly longer than the pace length when attempting to run using short or moderate length paces.

Feels like, done properly, the long-paced length style of running is the most enjoyable style, a majestic style.

However, producing a 220 yd run in which the average length of paces is high requires certain things: a fairly fast speed; the absence of fatigue; and, limber loose legs.

On May 2, a day dedicated to the long-paced style, I was only able to produce runs featuring paces on average longer than 4.4 feet on the thirteenth through the sixteenth 220 yd runs of the day.

Summary of Results 220 yd runs April 22-May 2

Length of Pace (level of effort), 220 yd times in seconds

Long paces (max effort)
0:47+0:51+0:55+0:58

Moderate Paces (moderate effort)
60+63+58+63+62+68+61+59
68+66+58+61+57+57+58+52
67+56+57+55+54+53+54+49

Short paces (maximum effort 1st 8 runs, minimum effort 2nd & 3rd 8 runs)
49+49+45+51+50+48+45+45
75+66+67+79+67+70+62+69
??+77+71+70+73+72+70+73

Long paces (minimum effort)
75, 70, 71, 75, 69, 70, 67, 68

Moderate paces (moderate effort)
54 57 62 67 65 71 66 66
65 65 ?? 55 57 60 58 58
67 60 58 60 57 61 60 57

Short paces (moderate effort)
60 60 58 57 57 58 58 57
61 54 54 52 51 53 52 54
70 68 62 61 62 60 57 57

Long paces (moderate effort)
68 67 69 65 65 62 62 62
75 66 63 64 55 55 51 51
82 70 65 62 58 60 62 57

The intellectual challenge is to figure out, which runs out of the twenty-four 220 yd runs run in a given type (levels of effort, styles of running vary) of workout, should be run faster than usual or much faster than usual.

That challenge is above and beyond in the first place realizing, that an effortless acceleration of improvement can be achieved by running some of the runs at faster than usual or much faster than usual speeds, while running other of the runs at slower than usual speeds.

Remember the ultimate goal is to be able to run a mile fast. The faster one can run the mile, the better one's state of health by a certain measure.

Thus simply by applying one's mind so as to effortlessly accelerate improvement in the mile speed, one suceeds in effortlessly improving one's health.

Audio-Visual Note: Video shows angels in the sky clad in white robes blowing trumpets, against background of sun's rays shooting out from behind clouds, while Audio renders audible an 'Allelujah' chorus.

I now estimate:

Using the short-paced style and moderate expenditure of effort per average 220 yd run, I should run the 9th through the 16th 220 yd runs of the 24 220s run, at a faster than usual speed. This would serve to improve the speed for the mile run. Also I should run the 3rd, 7th and 8th runs at much faster than usual speed, which will develop 220 yd speed and 440 yd speed.

Using the short-paced style and near-maximum expenditure of effort per average run, I should run the 3rd, 7th, and 8th 220 yd runs at especially fast speed. This would serve to develop 220 yd speed and 440 yd speed.

The clever tactic on a long-paced, moderate-effort per average run day would be to: go faster than usual on runs 12-15, and much faster than usual on run 1 and 16. This will develop 220 yd run and 880 yd run speeds.

The clever tactic on a long-paced, near-maximum effort per average run day would be to run the 1st run of the day at maximum speed. This would develop 220 yd run speed.

The clever tactic on a moderate-length-paced, moderate-effort-per-run day would be to: go faster than usual on runs 12-16 and 17-24; go much faster than usual on runs 1, 16, and 24. This will develop speed for the 220 yd run, the 440 yd run, and the mile.

Note that after runs 8, 16 and 24 I can look forward to a rest of walking a mile according to the regimen I have been following.

Thus simply by spending some time collecting and analyzing data, by varying which 220 yd runs are run faster than usual or much faster than usual, with such variance tailored to the individual nature I have manifested:

I can relatively effortlessly (if the runs that are not run faster than usual are not run slower than usual), or effortlessly (if the runs that are not run faster than usual are run slower than usual) accelerate improvement in the 220, the 440, the 880, and the mile-- all without ever running the 440, the 880, or the mile.

Day by Day Summary of Track Workouts, Leary Field, Waltham MA, April 22-May 2, showing seconds, paces, inhalations, lines of chant, per 220 yd run:

The usual format was: eight 220s run every seven minutes; a mile walked; another eight 220s run every seven minutes; a mile walked; another eight 220s run every seven minutes; a mile walked.

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April 22

Long-length paces

Four 220 yd runs, avg 52.7 secs
range of times: 47-58 secs

Time (seconds):
0:47+0:51+0:55+0:58=3:31

-- http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/04/47-second-eigth-of-mile-run-april-22.html

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April 23 reported April 24

Moderate paces

Twenty-four 220 yd runs, avg 59.0 secs; range of times: 49-68 secs

Times (seconds):
60+63+58+63+62+68+61+59=8:14
68+66+58+61+57+57+58+52=7:57
67+56+57+55+54+53+54+49=7:25

-- http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/04/725-mile-run-as-eight-220-yard-runs.html

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April 24 reported april 25

Short paces

24 220 yd runs, avg 63.1 secs; range of times: 45-79 secs.

Times (seconds):
49+49+45+51+50+48+45+45=6:22, avg=47.75;
75+66+67+79+67+70+62+69=9:15;
??(estimate 72)+77+71+70+73+72+70+73=578=9:38

For ninth to twenty-fourth 220 yd runs, introduced game of attempting to run the 220s in exactly 73 seconds.

-- http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/04/622-mile-run-as-eight-220-yard-runs.html

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April 26

Long paces

8 220 yd runs, avg 71.0 secs; range of times: 67-75 secs.

Times (seconds):
75, 70, 71, 75, 69, 70, 67, 68

Continued with game of running 220 yd runs in exactly 73 seconds

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April 27

Moderate paces

Goal was to run 220s somewhere in between 73 seconds and maximum speed

24 220s, avg 61.5 secs; range of times, 54-71 secs.

Avg Paces/220 yd run: 161.0
Avg length pace (feet): 4.1
Paces range: 158-172
Range of length of paces in feet (220 yd run with lowest avg length of paces, 220 yd run with highest avg length of paces): 3.8-4.1
(these 4 stats re paces based on observation of 7 220 yd runs)

Avg number of lines of chant per run (based on observation of 4 220 yd runs): 21.3

Avg number of inhalations (breathing) per 220 yd run (based on observation of 4 220 yd runs): 19.25

Times (seconds):
54 57 62 67 65 71 66 66
65 65 ?? 55 57 60 58 58
67 60 58 60 57 61 60 57

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April 29

Short paces

Goal was to run 220s somewhere in between 73 seconds and maximum speed

24 220s, avg 58.0 secs
range of 220 yd run times: 51-70 secs

Avg Paces/220 yd run: 175.3
Avg length pace (feet): 3.8
Paces range: 156-212
Range of length of paces in feet (220 yd run with lowest avg length of paces, 220 yd run with highest avg length of paces): 3.1-4.2

(stats re paces based on observation of 24 220 yd runs)

After a 54 sec 220 yd run that started at 7:24 PM, 'Coach Richard G' of the Waltham Track Club said to me: 'Doing intervals sir? You look good'.

Thus we have the important info that a 69 second 220 yd run is fast enough to impress a somewhat overweight grade-school boy, whereas, a 54 second run is fast enough to impress a track coach.

Thing is, one could surmise that such times are impressive with me because I am poetry in motion. Who knows whether those who are not poetry in motion, would impress at 69 seconds and 54 seconds for the 220 yd run.

Times (seconds):
60 60 58 57 57 58 58 57
61 54 54 52 51 53 52 54
70 68 62 61 62 60 57 57

On this day it was nice to be surrounded by the kids and coaches of the Waltham Track Club. Seemed time went by faster, there was less drudgery, the speeds achieved per unit energy expended were improved through the photogenic surroundings (kids and coaches and parents).

But it was unpleasant to think that these white American folks around me, including the cute kids, could soon end up starved to death like the Ukrainians of about a hundred years ago, due to the malice of the same ethnic group that did in the Ukrainians.

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May 2

Long paces

Goal was to run 220s somewhere in between 73 seconds and maximum speed

24 220s, avg 63.2 secs
range of 220 yd run times: 51-82 secs

Avg Paces/220 yd run: 163.8
Avg length pace (feet): 4.0
Paces range: 143-207
Range of length of paces in feet (220 yd run with lowest avg length of paces, 220 yd run with highest avg length of paces): 3.2-4.6

(stats re paces based on observation of 24 220 yd runs)

Times (seconds):
68 67 69 65 65 62 62 62
75 66 63 64 55 55 51 51
82 70 65 62 58 60 62 57

At the end of the workout, some boys spoke to me, it was getting near 11:00 PM. One of them, a white one, was shocked and impressed, that I was on my fifth mile. The other one, who looked like a handsome mix of East Asian and White, remembered me from having seen me at the Waltham Y.

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I realize there exist those who would disparage the act of putting a few hours into typing up and then blogging, this kind of report.

Fact is, that everything was scribbled in a notebook and on index cards before it was put up on the computer.

After putting the data up on the computer, I acquired insights that I did not acquire when the data was scribbled on index cards and in a notebook.

Putting the data on the computer allowed me to more efficiently (with less time and energy expended compared to working with data scribbled on index cards and in notebooks) analyze the data and present the data and the analysis to myself.

The analysis is based on the presentation to the self, and the presentation to the self is based on the analysis.

After this it was just a little step to turn the stuff I did in the computer for myself, into a blog-post shared with others.

The perceptive realize that my display of competence with regards to the training for improvement in the mile issue, indicates competence in other subjects also.

Analyzing slash reporting about 'unimportant' subjects like track, builds up my endurance, speed, and skill when it comes to analyzing slash reporting about 'important' subjects.

The incredible Google Desktop (disaster for me because one of my computers is 64-bit and it won't run on it properly) showed me that the typing the index card and notebook data into the computer, analyzing it, and typing the report took me 5 hours.

(The Microsoft Windows history told me that the last visited time was the current time for everything, because of the multi-tabbed browser; this was not helpful for determining when I started)

That is, this blog-report of
2257 words, 5.64 book-length pages was produced in 5 hours; which is 1.1 400-word book-length pages per hour, 451 words per hour.

This blog-report reviewed 7 workouts, of which four had never been reported on previously.

So we're down to about 451 words per workout, about one hour spent analyzing/reporting per workout, which is less verbose and time/energy consuming than what used to be the case doing a blog-report for each workout, due to the lumping of several workouts into one report.

I must admit that the level of meaningful important communication produced per word used, is better when several workouts are lumped into one report.

@2009 David Virgil Hobbs

Around the block for five miles in eight-two minutes

Saturday March 7 Run

Reminds me of the song I heard when I was a child...'around the world in eighty days...'

Prior to the run footwear-wise I put into effect the recommendations I made to myself after the March 6 run. These were:

"Left foot: increase ball-of-foot & toes-baseline padding from 8 layers to 12; increase toes-area-padding from 16 layers to 20. Continue using the 'pretaping' type m-wrap...Right foot: increase ball-of-foot & toes-baseline padding from 8 layers to 12; continue using 'multipurpose' type m-wrap. Eliminate padding gap under line that separates toes from ball of foot (http://davidvirgil.blogspot.com/2009/03/running-footwear-continued-experiments.html)".

With both left and right shoes: I used completely new fresh m-wrap pads; I engineered the pad for the ball-of-foot/base-of-toes-line and the pad for the toes so that the two pads fit together seamlessly; I used tape not glue so as to avoid layers of m-wrap being hardened by glue; I first taped down a 8 layer pad for the ball-of-foot and base-of-toes and a 16 layer pad for the toes with one piece of tape; then on top of this I taped down a 4 layer pad for the ball-of-foot/base-of-toes-line and a 4 layer pad for the toes area with another piece of tape.

This double-layered approach could be advantageous when it comes to tinkering with padding levels in the future.

Following the orders I gave myself I used the 'pretaping' type m-wrap in the left foot and the 'multipurpose' m-wrap in the right foot.

The thicknesses in terms of layers of m-wrap in pads that are most natural to work with are: 2, 4, 8, 16. This is because I fold the m-wrap repeatedly to create a pad.

When I cut the pad out of the folded m-wrap, I place a piece of card representing the desired cutout pattern on the pad and draw around the edge of the card to draw the pattern on to the pad, and then cut the pad out according to the desired pattern.

When I do this, I position as much of the perimeter of the piece of card as possible to align with the edge of the folded m-wrap that is basically all one piece; this helps to keep the layers of the pad aligned with each other. Thus there is advantage in folding into thicknesses of 2, 4, 8, and 16.

Saturday March 7:

I ran the round the block course again (1st 3rd 5th miles run, 2nd 4th 6th miles walked). Time after 5th mile: same as Friday March 6, 82 minutes at 4:38 PM. Only 50 seconds was subtracted from the time for breaks such as tying shoelaces.

In the left foot: I felt some pain in the left index and middle toes in the first mile. After the first mile I tightened the shoelaces in the left foot, because I felt a looseness in the heel. After the shoelaces were tightened, for the rest of the run I felt some slight tingliness and numbness but not pain. After the first mile I felt the sensory illusion of unevenness under the forefoot.

In the right foot: The foot felt just about perfect the entire six miles. Whatever slight discomfort I felt in the foot, was I estimate simply what someone who has been running for less than half a year would expect doing six miles on concrete-type surfaces.

I developed a slight soreness on the outside of the pinkie toe on the right foot prior to the run. I estimate this was because I attempted to go to sleep wearing the running shoes as I thought such might stretch the shoes to the proper extent or naturally acclimatize my feet to the shoes. I wore the shoes for a few hours as I lay in bed but I could not get to sleep while wearing them. Thus I woke up late in a sleep-deprived state.

My advice to myself for the next run:

Left foot: increase padding in heel area from 16 layers to 24 layers; loosen shoelaces.

Right foot: no change in footwear, be careful re soreness on outside front area of pinkie toe.

The footwear during the run was:

Left shoe:

foam/gel heel-to-toe insole +
'toe bed' (forefoot gel pad for ball of foot and toes) +
12 layers m-wrap pad under ball-of-foot & line between toes & ball of foot +
20 layers m-wrap pad attached to toe area of gel forefoot pad beneath big, index and middle toes +
16 layers m-wrap pad around sides and rear of heel
Adhesives: tape, not glue.
'Pretaping' type m-wrap used.

Right shoe:

foam/gel heel-to-toe insole +
'toe bed' (forefoot gel pad for ball of foot and toes) +
12-layers m-wrap pad under ball-of-foot & line between toes and ball of foot +
20 layers m-wrap pad attached to toe area of gel forefoot pad beneath big, index and middle toes +
16 layers m-wrap pad around sides and rear of heel
'Multipurpose' type m-wrap used.

During the run, as I ran up Exchange Street, this tall heavy clean-shaven East Asian type man wearing glasses with thick dark frames saw me, and said in a loud tone of voice, 'he's handsome!'. He was walking with some people in the direction of the big local restaurant called 'the Chateau' ( http://www.chateaurestaurant.com/ ). Maybe he was white not East Asian but his skin was white.

Yesterday during the run a couple of 'Latino' teenagers were backing out of a driveway blocking my path as I ran down the sidewalk towards their car. I stopped and patiently waited for them to pull out. They insisted that they should freeze giving me the opportunity to run around behind them. Seemed they desired to express themselves as respectfully courteous. Looking into the driver's face, he seemed to gaze at me with admiration, as if he knew that I would be able to get in shape and become a star.

I hear alot about crimes committed by various types of immigrants. In contrast to such are the Hispanics or 'Latinos' living in the neighborhood now who were not here ten or fiftenn years ago. They all seem like good folks who just want to live law-abiding lives in peace with other ethnic groups.

I'm famous around here for my 'Pele'-like soccer tricks, sprinting 20 yards full speed keeping the ball off the ground but close to the body using alternating left and right feet. To a lesser extent I am infamous for my lack of endurance.

The round-the-block neighborhood is much more lively on weekdays compared to Saturdays.

Whatever the day, today as most other days there was the problem of lots of cars and the fumes they emit. I got whiffs of a few different types of car-type-fumes during the run,. This problem is better late at night and early in the morning.

The weather today was 55-60 degrees during the run (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/wxStationGraphAll?day=7&year=2009&month=3&ID=KMAWESTO6&type=3&width=500&showsolarradiation=1&showtemp=1&showpressure=1&showwind=1&showwinddir=1&showrain=1 ). A long-sleeved sportshirt, a sleeveless t-shirt, the visibility vest, sweatpants and shorts were warm enough, maybe too warm; not wearing the sweatshirt was a good idea.

I estimate that a product that should be easy to find but is not is: a cool, lightweight vest built basically for the pockets it has that joggers can put things in.

Keys etc are a heavy weight for the thighs as they move while running when placed in pockets in pants. The pockets in the pants are shallow and you always feel as if what you have placed in them could slip out with disastrous results.

Strange that the visibility vest I bought at the Running Shoes store, Marathon Sports in Cambridge MA (http://www.marathonsports.com/ ), does not have any pockets for keys and stuff in it.

A so-called 'hip bag', a small bag attached to a belt is a possibility but such could result in physical problems for a jogger.