Flashback Friday

April 28th, 2007

It's Like The New Car Smell, but better!!!

I love the smell of new shoes! It's definitely better than the smell of old shoes! I don't know what it is about them, but new shoes just make me feel like I'm running faster and with just a tad less effort. It's like the kid in The Sandlot that puts on a new pair of Converse shoes before taking on Hercules the dog. New shoes make me run faster, jump higher, and all those other various things real athletes can do...or not.

<----- My new shoes! Asics.

It's a good thing I got in my 30 minute run/walk today (plus 4 or 5 trips around the running store building) because I got to chow down like a fat man at a buffet tonight at my parent's house. It was Dorrito casserole night, a.k.a. Mom's surefire way to get the family together for dinner. It's good because tomorrow is a rest day on the training schedule but bad because it's my weigh day. At least if it doesn't move or go in the direction I would like, I could blame it on the Dorritos!

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I LOVE NEW SHOES!  I especially love new running shoes.  They hold so much potential!  I was never a big fan of those Asics.  I still use them for walking shoes even though I ran in them for 300+ miles and walked in them for more years.  Perhaps it's time to say goodbye to them?  Nah.

My morning isn't going quite as planned.  I'm need to massively overhaul my routine (or lack of) as of late if I'm going to make it to vacation with any sanity.  I haven't been getting to sleep until late which makes me sleep later than usually, which throws off EVERYTHING for the day.  It's not been pretty lately.

I'm cutting my rambles short.  Off to run, shower, tan, finish packing, and get ready for work.  Ready, set, GO!