Some good, some bad

So, on Friday night out of sheer excitement to run with my Garmin and my new Asics, I headed out for a run. I ended up running 3.12 miles (5 km) — I think I just like this distance. Since this was my first run outside since the fall, I was worried; however, the run went okay considering the hills. I forgot how hard hills are!

The next day (Saturday), I realized, however, that the previous nights run had not gone well in the shoe department.  As I explained in my last post, the shoe person told me that I didn’t need stability shoes anymore in her opinion.  Unfortunately I think her opinion was dead wrong.  Last year about this time I was training for the half marathon and had an extreme pain in my lower legs in the shin areas. I eventually got stability shoes and I hadn’t experienced that pain since last April. Well, Saturday it was back, and I think it was because of the shoes.  To test that theory, I ran my 6 mile run on Saturday in my old shoes (and on the treadmill because it was late and, for safety reasons, I won’t run in the dark).  My legs were pain free on Sunday.  This morning, just to make sure it was not the running outside that caused the pain, I ran the same route as Friday in my old shoes. Again, no pain.  Needless to say, I’m taking the shoes back and getting some stability ones.

And I ran 22 miles last week! I’m shooting for 23/24 this week But given that we’re flying to Puerto Rico on Friday and departing on our cruise Saturday the running might suffer a bit (but I hope not too much).

~ by jaimielyn on March 24, 2008.