new sneakers!

new sneakers!

but wait, I hear you cry, didn't she just buy new sneakers?

actually, it was over a year ago, which would be overdue, if I were a Serious Runner.

Generally, you replace running shoes every 300-500 miles. (Serious Runners replace them every 6 months, because they run that much more than I do.)

So, my training schedule, when followed, has me running 6-9 miles weekly, or as many as 15 when I'm close to the Boilermaker (which conflicts with both Firefly and Origins this year, dag nabbit). I rarely do less than at least a 5K.

So, in the 54 weeks since I bought my previous new sneakers, I've run 324-486 miles. Not all of them in the new shoes, but enough to drop the oldest pair and replace it with the new. I have an A pair and a B pair. In theory, when most of my running is on the treadmill, the A pair lives in my gym locker and the B pair lives under my bed, and switch accordingly when the seasons allow more outdoor runs.

I used to maintain a C pair, in my trunk, and a D pair, at Chez Mom. The D pair was unceremoniously trashed last Easter Sunday, when my intended 5+ mile "work off brunch in advance" run was cut to 2.5 miles due to shin splints from hell, Hell, HELL. The C pair is...

(checks)

not in the trunk...

(checks under the bed again)

o good grief, so this pair that I've been looking at (with great alarm because they don't quite match last year's style) were an older pair of sneakers. Which means, the old pair at the gym, that I unceremoniously chucked in the trash when I bought the new ones on Saturday, were (at best) the C sneakers! No wonder my bunion had worn a giant enormous hole through the side.

Have I totally lost you yet?

(checks old calendars.)

Aha!
Ok, so, I last bought New Balance ones (possibly 851s) the day before the 15K, in 2004. Those were declared dead on Saturday.
Which means, the sneakers I've been thinking were the A sneaks were bought in 2005.
And the 2006 "A" sneaks have been deep among the dustbunnies for who knows how many months!

Which means...
the 2005 pair should go in the trunk. Right now.

[...]

Check!

Sure, this bores the crap out of y'all, but it helps me when I have to go shoe shopping next year...

I should try to get to sleep early enough to go running before work, except Stupid Daylight Stupid Time makes me late for even work if I try to wake up with the Stupid sun, much less waking Stupid early enough to squeeze in a Stupid 5K. (I can wake up naturally, without alarm dependence, if it's light out.) Feh. Since I have to get up UNNATURALLY EARLY (Before dawn) just to get to work on time, I might be able to coerce myself into waking another hour earlier.

But, you don't need to get up that early to watch me sweat! Come cheer me on in the Ras nah Eireann this Sunday morning. I ran the 2005 ras in 34 minutes. If you get to the finish line (bike path behind brooks in davis) by 11:30, you probably won't miss me.

new sneakers!

new sneakers!

but wait, I hear you cry, didn't she just buy new sneakers?

actually, it was over a year ago, which would be overdue, if I were a Serious Runner.

Generally, you replace running shoes every 300-500 miles. (Serious Runners replace them every 6 months, because they run that much more than I do.)

So, my training schedule, when followed, has me running 6-9 miles weekly, or as many as 15 when I'm close to the Boilermaker (which conflicts with both Firefly and Origins this year, dag nabbit). I rarely do less than at least a 5K.

So, in the 54 weeks since I bought my previous new sneakers, I've run 324-486 miles. Not all of them in the new shoes, but enough to drop the oldest pair and replace it with the new. I have an A pair and a B pair. In theory, when most of my running is on the treadmill, the A pair lives in my gym locker and the B pair lives under my bed, and switch accordingly when the seasons allow more outdoor runs.

I used to maintain a C pair, in my trunk, and a D pair, at Chez Mom. The D pair was unceremoniously trashed last Easter Sunday, when my intended 5+ mile "work off brunch in advance" run was cut to 2.5 miles due to shin splints from hell, Hell, HELL. The C pair is...

(checks)

not in the trunk...

(checks under the bed again)

o good grief, so this pair that I've been looking at (with great alarm because they don't quite match last year's style) were an older pair of sneakers. Which means, the old pair at the gym, that I unceremoniously chucked in the trash when I bought the new ones on Saturday, were (at best) the C sneakers! No wonder my bunion had worn a giant enormous hole through the side.

Have I totally lost you yet?

(checks old calendars.)

Aha!
Ok, so, I last bought New Balance ones (possibly 851s) the day before the 15K, in 2004. Those were declared dead on Saturday.
Which means, the sneakers I've been thinking were the A sneaks were bought in 2005.
And the 2006 "A" sneaks have been deep among the dustbunnies for who knows how many months!

Which means...
the 2005 pair should go in the trunk. Right now.

[...]

Check!

Sure, this bores the crap out of y'all, but it helps me when I have to go shoe shopping next year...

I should try to get to sleep early enough to go running before work, except Stupid Daylight Stupid Time makes me late for even work if I try to wake up with the Stupid sun, much less waking Stupid early enough to squeeze in a Stupid 5K. (I can wake up naturally, without alarm dependence, if it's light out.) Feh. Since I have to get up UNNATURALLY EARLY (Before dawn) just to get to work on time, I might be able to coerce myself into waking another hour earlier.

But, you don't need to get up that early to watch me sweat! Come cheer me on in the Ras nah Eireann this Sunday morning. I ran the 2005 ras in 34 minutes. If you get to the finish line (bike path behind brooks in davis) by 11:30, you probably won't miss me.