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

[ilanarama]

Last week I ran 3 times...

...in the pool. I think I'll make a new post in the community about pool running. It's actually not as bad as it sounds! And it's a wonderful alternative to sitting on my butt.

On surprising shoes: I was always bummed because running shoes all seemed to be too wide for my narrow heel, until the guy at my local running store showed me a new way of lacing them, and voila, totally solved my narrow-heel problem.

[blnchflr]

I look forward to your post on pool running!

[ell]

Show us the lacing solution?

[ilanarama]

Hmm, I think you can see the important bit in this picture under the cat's ear. :-) The holes run in a kind of a line up to a high hole and then down. The lace runs through the third to last hole and then through the last hole on the same side of the shoe, skipping the high hole and creating a loop. Then it crosses the foot and runs through that loop on the opposite side. This creates a pull from a lower point on the shoe edges.

If that's not totally clear let me know and I will take a better picture.