Monday, September 18, 2006

Road to the Marathon

This last weekend I was supposed to run 20 miles. At 6:30 in the morning.

Did that happen?

No, not so much.

When I got up it was windy. And hailing. And dark and cold.

AND HAILING! (Don’t skip over that point, please.)

I can do many things, but running at the crack of dawn, before the sun has come up, in freezing rain is not one of the things I’m willing to do. So I bailed and ran later that night.

And of course, my other reason for not running in the soggy mess of Saturday was that I got new shoes! And I didn’t want to ge them all dirty and icky.

The new ones are on the far right. And yes, they are all basically the same shoe, except for the Nikes on the far left. When I first started running I went and got a pair of Nikes, whose basic requirement was that they fit. Then I went to a real running store and they set me straight. I pronate a bit when I run so I need shoes that compensate for that. And these nice and expensive inserts. Because it’s not a real sport in America until you start spending a lot of money on gadetry.

The new shoes (on the right, remember) are the shoes I’ll wear for the marathon in a few weeks. I’m breaking them in and rubbing dead chickens and sprinkling the blood of a female goat on them so they’ll carry me to the finish line. I change shoes after about 250 or so miles. So that pic represents at least 1000 or so miles run.

In the immortal words of Keanu, “Whoa.”

Jon scribbled this mess on 09/18/06 at 01:43 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post Running Log. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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