New trainers

As mentioned earlier, I have new trainers.  As I have previously mentioned, my toes are looking rough.  I was fitted for my trainers last year over the summer when I had two half marathons planned (both ended up falling by the wayside due to wedding plans – one was our own wedding, the other was a very close friend’s) but I did the obligatory run in front of a camera, marveled at how bandy my ankles are, agreed that I needed good trainers, bought the good trainers, and then ran in the good trainers.  And the trainers were good….for a while.
 
They didn’t really bother me too much when training earlier in the year, but my toes have really been suffering in the last couple of months.  Initially I put this down to increased mileage but I mentioned it to a guy in Sweat Shop who, after asking me how marathon training was going, said “well, your nails really shouldn’t be going black, it’s really not just a normal part of training – it sounds like your shoes are too small”.  This got me thinking, so I mentioned it in Runner’s Need too when I popped in during lunch for some gels.  I got the same answer – your toe nails shouldn’t really be going black, falling off and getting infected – your shoes sound too small.  They asked me to bring them in to have a look at and guess what?  Toooooo small.  Awesome.  A week and a half before the marathon and my shoes are bust.

But then they brought out the (giant man sized) Asics and I was sold in one try – running on the treadmill felt great and they corrected my borked ankles in the same way as my smaller shoes – AND they were very pretty.  Neon pretty.  I’m not sure whether its right to describe a man’s shoe as pretty but whatever….

See?

Lesson learned - get a proper gait analysis and then make sure your shoes are bigger than you usually wear.  These bad boys are TWO SIZES bigger than my usual shoes, which means that they are truly gigantic *yey* but as long as my toes don't end up falling off, I don't care.

So they’re getting broken in tonight and in a just over a week’s time, they’ll be running the marathon with me.  Boom time.