TAKE 3!!!

NEW SHOES ... take 3!! 

Ok so here is the thing, I am generally not a picky person, when it comes to sports equipment.  Ask my friend James, he used to literally squeeze my ski boots on my feet because I refused to by new ones.  They were a size 6 and my feet are a size 10.  He used to sit on them while I or one of my friends would close the hinges.  It was generally a 3 person job. 

Soooo to be on my third pair of shoes to me seems ridiculous!  I tried the pair of asics you saw below and they just didn't fit right so I went back to running room for an exchange.  For some reason the person working offered me a shoe with more support when in fact what I needed was a shoe with less support.  Apparently there are people who run called supinators and pronators and others that are neutral.  I was told I was a pronator but in fact my foot falls in more of a neutral/supinator position.  To add to this problem I was then given a pair of insoles that exagerrated the support for a pronator further.  This miss assesment has been causing me a great deal of pain!  OUCH.  My foot is literally making a grinding sound when I move it, poor abused foot muscles. 

Now like I said I like to try to push through all that pain and noise and "JUST GET 'ER DONE" so I was running in these shoes and probably causing a lot more damage to the muscles then I should have been.  HENCE new shoes number 3! New shoes number 3 are cute and green and blue and white ... ok really they are not my style and kinda ugly but its not all about style, they have to be functional and comfortable.  I didn't want to spend another huge chunk of change on shoes so I got some that were a steal running room for $49.99 if you can believe it!!!! 

The RESULT of new shoes number #3: first treadmill run = success!!!  5 km on a treadmill in 42 minutes with a 5 min walk start and a 5 min walk cool down!  A month ago that was taking me 1:15:00. 

Also I would like to congratulate myself on officially dropping 15 lbs since I started this thing!

YEAH ME!

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