Back in the day, I used to love the Spike Lee and Michael Jordan commercials, where Spike Lee would ask Mike, is it the shoes?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abr_LU822rQ
While, I am starting to wonder if it really was the shoes. I did my 13th training run today, my 4th long run. It was 8 miles, 56 total training miles. These 8 miles were by 40 seconds a mile the fastest ones I have run. What changed? It's the shoes!
After my four mile run Saturday, I walked into Tulsa Runner and asked for the exact same shoes I was wearing. The guy in the store wondered how in the world I had been running in my old shoes, with over 500 miles in them. At my weight, they should probably go much less than that.
Shod with my glorious new Brooks Adrenaline GTS 11's, it was like running on a cloud. That was about as comfortable as a run that started sub 30 degrees could be. I won't wait so long next time.
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