Monday, August 3, 2009

1 week down, 17 to go !

I would like to 1st thank Mother Nature, for taking most of the summer off, giving us here in NJ, a longer spring! It figures that as soon as it's time for me to ramp up my running, good ole' MN brings back the heat & humidity.
I got out and ran a wet 6 miles on Wednesday, and 7 on Thursday. Before I went on my wet run on Wednesday, I hit up the local RoadRunner sports store, for a new pair of running shoes. My Black Kayano's have about had it. I have heard nothing but good things about Road Runner, and their foot analysis that they do, so I wanted to make sure what I was wearing was the best shoe for me. The gal that helped me, was awesome, and after trying on a few different pairs, I settled on more of the same, another pair of the Asics Gel Kayano 15's. With my VIP membership, and an additional 10%, I got them for $116.00, they were reg. $139.00, so I got a great deal on them.
I chose to hold off running in them, until Thursday, no sense making the 1st run, a run in the rain!
I also purchased a new insole for them and they felt good. I can tell it will take a few weeks to get them broken in.
Saturday, I got out with the TrailRuns group. There were about 8 of us, and it was nice to have Shoreturtle back. He hadn't run with the group in 8 weeks. He was coming off a Achilles injury. While I only had 4 miles on the schedule, it was a long run of 7 miles with the group.
Sunday, I got out bright an early, at 5:45am. and got my 12 miler in before the rains came. And boy did they. I just missed a massive downpour by about 10 mins! I felt pretty good on the 12 miler, and averaged around 9 min miles. I started out slow, and built up as I went along. The legs were a bit heavy at the start, probably from the long trail run on Saturday.
Week 1 is in the books, with only 17 more to come!

8 comments:

I Run for Fun said...

You missed the downpour I got caught in. Great week of running!

I love it when I get a deal on running shoes. Hope you love them.

Vava said...

Nice score on the new shoes. Mine came in last week (having to special order my non-standard size) and I can't wait to pick them up. They're not the Kayano's, but the model below: GT2140s. Stick to what's been working, and it seems like they've been really good to you.

Also, continued success on your marathon training!

Denise said...

I love the count down!!

We really did get a change in weather out of no where. I guess i can't complain since the summer has been so mild.

Darrell said...

There's no way I could break in new shoes in the rain, at least not intentionally. Good call.

Keep on rocking the training.

Unknown said...

Hey dude.. You really got a pretty good deal on the new killer kicks you've got. I did check it over at www.holabirdsports.com and they were about 116 buckaroos as well. It wouldn't have made any differences.

I am psyched about you going into Philly marathon this year.

sRod said...

So true about the weather! As soon as I started trainign Ma Nature turned on the heaters!

tangpeter said...

Rare dermatoglyphs is definitely the biggest wind this year, sweeping bags and frye mules
, I always feel uncomfortable if I don't come to one. But I don't recommend that you try to be particularly exaggerated.
After all, it will be a problem if you can wear it next year. I have already bought a pair of By Far with crocodile pattern.In addition to our good-looking clothes, shoes can still fascinate you. "The type is frye sale, in fact, there are quite a lot of colors, but my favorite is this pair of crocodile pattern red and blue color matching, it is too individual!
At that time, many friends asked me to buy frye billy short
, but unfortunately I couldn't get it when the code was broken.....but it is still a cinnabar mole in my heart. I told myself to start it immediately if I made money.

tangpeter said...

Black, gray and brown are the three natural colors, which meet the needs of Asian girls for natural makeup. Everyone knows that Europeans and Americans havelight grey contacts, so when expressing some exotic makeup, I will choose the big blue and big green models that match them.
Remember Taylor Swift's imitation makeup? I used blue-violet pure black eyes. Using makeup techniques to deepen the contours of the eyes, coupled with the most important cosmetic contact lenses, the eyes really look like Europeans and Americans.
Such a dark brown model will change totwilight brown when exposed to the sun under the sun. It seems to have a sense of blur, and it looks very nice with natural earthy light makeup.