New Kicks

Alright, here's the truth.  I have terrible feet.  Terrible.   I don't mean terrible in an annoying way, like Carrot Top telling a joke.   I mean terrible in an painful way, like when you hit your thumb instead of head of the nail when swinging a hammer. (Yeah I hit my thumb pretty hard while working last Tuesday)  Anyway, my feet just suck.  I've tried stability shoes, motion control shoes, cushioned shoes, arch supports, and heel supports.  I've gotten feet massages and soaked them in Epsom salt.  Hell, I'll admit it...At one point I could even answer the question, "Are you Gellin?"  "Yes."

I've heard about how great Asics, New Balance, Saucony, and Brooks shoes are.  I've tried them.  I  liked some of them, didn't like others, but there's been no "great" shoe for me. Nike, Adidas, Puma, K Swiss.  I've sported them all at one time or another.  Heather has a pair of Vibram Five Finger shoes, and these really do look interesting to me.  Enough so that I was about to try them when she told me about another shoe she'd seen an ad for.  Some Reebok shoe.  Reebok?!?  I didn't know they even still made shoes.  Then I remembered seeing some Peyton Manning commercials about Zigtech shoes and I said, "No thanks babe."  She assured me it wasn't those shoes, it was something new they had.  So I looked it up online a couple weeks ago and found this interesting video:

Ok I'll admit I was interested.  Maybe I'm a sucker for marketing...maybe I'm just  tired of the sledgehammer hitting my feet...  So when my feet were killing me after my run yesterday I decided I needed a new pair of running shoes.  So tonight I went down to the shoes store to try on these new Reebok shoes.  Most shoes feel awful the instant I put my feet in them, most of the ones that don't feel awful 20 min later.  But when I put these new shoes on they actually felt pretty good.  I walked around in the store for 15 minutes.  I know that may seem like a long time, and the the store clerk agreed, he was discretely keeping and eye on me as if at any moment I might make a run for it and sprint out of the store and steal these new shoes!


Anyway, after getting a good feel for them, and to the relief of the salesman, I didn't run, I bought.

I rushed home slipped them on and headed out to log a few miles and see how they did.  It's only the first run, only three miles.  But they felt GREAT.  An amazing difference.  I only hope the hammer won't be back soon.  I'll keep you posted.

May 6 Stats:

Total Distance: 3.01 Miles

Total Time: 27:31s

Avg Pace: 9:08 min/mile