Monday check-in

[ell]

Happy Monday runners!

How is your spring training going? I'm still in training for the Eagleman 1/2 Ironman in (eeep!) just under 6 weeks!

My runs have been feeling less than stellar lately and suddenly I realized that I've been running in the same shoes since sometime last July...so that precipitated a trip out to the local running store (laufshop) and as I was going through the various shoes I usually wear (and have been wearing for more than 20 years give or take some ill-fated forays into stability shoes) the very perceptive saleswoman asked why I always wear BRANDX. Then she looked down at my long narrow feet and immediately understood.

And she came back with a pair of Brooks in a narrow width! For the first time ever I get to wear a really nice pair of Brooks. No one ever told me before that you could even get narrow width running shoes! (They just all sent me to Nike BRANDX and I had to take what they offered, with essentially no other choices)

What's your favorite shoe or other piece of gear? Or, what was one thing that really surprised you when you tried it?

And of course, what have you been up to this week? Any races in your near future?

Comments

[blnchflr]

I had a good 4/1 mins run/walk interval run on Sunday, but generally my forefoot issue is being a bitch. Interestingly, walking is a lot harder on the foot than is running, it seems.

When I last got new running shoes, in fall, I got a running test, and it turned out I needed shoes with a very firm arch support, and the new pair - Nike - has worked very well for me, definitely best shoes so far.

[ell]

Yay shoes that fit :-) and hopefully your forefoot issue clears up soon!

[blnchflr]

It's a chronic condition, sadly - I can't find the English term for it; the bones of the forefoot have "fallen down", so you're walking on the in a really unpleasant way D: