I put some new shoes on and everything is all right.
Day 45.
I bought a pair of Asics Gel-Nimbus 10s. They have a lot of cushion. I feel like I’m a good two inches taller in these than the others. I bought them at Trade Home shoes in the mall. The fellow there was wearing them. He had me try a few different things, but these had the most cushioning. I think that’s what I needed most. The guy there was very helpful.
AND …
I ran five miles today. Using my new best friend, MapMyRun.com, I found a route that came to exactly five miles that would not be boring or repetitive. I jumped on the trail, ran to Adams, up to Koenig, over to Cedar, up around the Independent office down to Charles, then Ashton to the trail, the trail back to Blaine, down to Pheonix, then over to Cleveland and … exactly five miles.
AND … I did it in 50 minutes and 50 seconds. That’s right at 10 minutes, 10 seconds a mile.
I had a small catastrophe, however. When was a block from the trail on Ashton, I caught my hand on my iPod and pulled both earplugs out of my ears. Both lost their plug covers and the little rubber things bounced away. I picked them up, fumbled a bit and a few strides later, dropped them again. I stopped the clock, picked up the left plug, but couldn’t find the right. I was stopped for about a minute and a half or so. But I had to stop looking for the plug and go. I had to wrap the line around my ear and drape it over into the ear. It didn’t stay very well, so the last 21 minutes of the run were a bit unbalanced volume-wise.
I did get blisters on the sides of my feet, but I think it’s because I didn’t use thick socks. I thought if the shoes were new, I’d put on thinner socks to let my feet breathe a bit better. I should have wore my good socks. I have small blisters on the sides of my heal. I’ll live.
Everything is all right.
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July 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I love my 9’s, got them at trade home too, even added a little support arch to add more $$ to the purchase.
Blisters? never, if they keep up go back to trade home and see if you need a different shoe.
Are you getting back up to speed? I ran 6 around the cemetary, I like boring…I might have to check out your route website!!
July 13th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The blisters are on the sides, I talked to Matt at Trade Home today. He said it might be the socks, so Tuesday I’ll use good socks, maybe two pair again.
The great thing about the MapMyRun.com site is you create it and it gives you the distances. So I start at my house, then click around to the distance I want and back home. It’s great.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Great job on the 5 miles Jack!!
July 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I used to always run with the thick cotton socks you’re not supposed to run with–my feet blistered up like crazy. It didn’t change much when I switched to good socks this spring–mostly because I was running like 15 miles and it’s really tough to avoid blisters when you’re going that far.
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