Showing posts with label running shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label running shoes. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

a weak sauce week

This week was abysmal... I ate like utter crap, i slept in because there was little work to be had in my freelance life, I stayed up late (although I got to hobby a bit, which was fun). I had portillos TWICE including a big honking piece of chocolate cake at the end of each meal. I made a huge serving of rice crispy treats at home (lord help me), and my bike is still hanging out somewhere in the FedEx void (after being totally torn up I had to send it in to get my insurance claim and they STILL have not returned it, even though it's been 7 days.) Top this with Chipotle, McDonalds, a new potbellies opened across the street from my house (sugar cookies!, 3 times!) and everything horrible that was fast and cheap I could find, I gobbled it up. My body, resillient from decades of McDonalds intake in my youth, felt very warm and comfy. Oh god,  I forgot white castle, MAN I ate like shit these last few days.

It got so bad, that I finally put my foot down. First I realized that the whole thing going on here is I cleared out my fridge before wildflower and so I had no food to make at home.... duh, and I had no money to go buy a shit-ton of groceries. So because I actually really like my home cooked, usually olive-oil-based goodness, I went to the grocery store and bought a load of basics on credit. Pasta, pasta sauce, eggs, some chicken boobs, zucchini (sauteed, my fave), and oranges (fruit is the best) among the selection.

As I consume my last rice crispy treat, I will post tonight's run, my first run on the new shoes (see next post). 

Saturday, May 10, 2008

New Running Shoes

Well, time to retire these New Balance 504 shoes. This is the second pair of these monsters I bought and ran into the ground. I ran them into pieces of gum. I think I had 150 miles on the first pair, and looking back I'm probably at least at 150 with this pair too. Plus they got insanely dusty at Wildflower 2008, so I'm retiring them.

The problem now is that I really feel compelled to go down to fleet feet and get myself properly fitted for a sweet pair of running shoes, and that costs money that I probably shouldn't spend. I'm still paying "the man" off on my credit cards and times are generally tight right now. But these are the shoes I'm going to be running on for the next year, probably in all my races, and for an entire running season, I think they need to be rock-solid awesome supportive shoes, so I better not mess this up.