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May 03, 2005
Addicted to New Shoes
I have a serious problem with shoes. Running shoes, cute shoes, sandals, boots, any kind of shoe I love em. Over the weekend I bought two new pairs of sandals. We can't even wear open toed shoes where I work, but I just wanted them. Today I bought a new pair of light weight trainers. I needed them. In the past month I have purchased a pair of racing flats, a pair of regular trainers, and now my light weight trainers. I really needed to get these today. Enough said for now.
I have to say I was an annoying customer. I tried on every single shoe on the wall of this variety. Buying regular training shoes is not too much of a problem. I get the same kind without fail. Every time I find a light weight trainer that I like, it gets drastically changed. I took a big gamble and tried a shoe that I had a terrible experience with in a prior version. It is supposed to be much improved from what I wore once and had to get rid of. Anyhow, I was a pain since I tried on every pair in more than one size each. My feet seem to have magically grown a half size, not that I going to complain about it.
There is a loop from the running store that they do for a group run on Wednesday nights. I am getting bored with the run that I typically do, so I changed my clothes there and did that loop. Rumor has it that it is just over 7 miles, but I don't know if it has ever been measured. One of the men who runs with our group has a pedometer that he swears by and he says that it is 7.2 miles. I decided to do this loop for a change of pace. You would never guess that I had run a 10 mile race on Sunday becuase my legs felt pretty darn good. The first mile felt a little bit sluggish, but once I got moving they felt very good. I wore my new shoes to test them out. There were some potty problems, I had to wait until over five miles in to use a bathroom because there is absolutely no where to hide on this route. The worst part was coming back to the store, up the hill with wind in my face. I did try to stay relaxed, but I did the course in just over 48 minutes. I kept running up the road some and then turned around to hit an even hour. I guess that it was between 8.5 and 9 miles for the afternoon. The new shoes were not bad, but there was a hot spot on the ball of my right foot towards the end.
I stretched a little in the parking lot before heading over to the gym. While there I rode the stationary bike for 40 minutes. After riding the bike I stretched some more. This is part of the TLC that I am giving my feet this week. After I lifted some, but I really wanted to go home because I had not been home in over 12 hours.
Now I'm home and have eaten and just want to veg out. There is some cleaning that reall needs to get done, including folding the laundry that I did over a week ago...
Posted by Blondie at May 3, 2005 07:53 PM
Comments
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a shoe fetish!
Posted by: LouBob at May 3, 2005 10:48 PM