What a busy day. Tuesdays are generally pretty packed for me. I was gone by 7:30 this morning to a breakfast meeting with some investor friends. Then out previewing houses to buy all day. I knew if I didn’t get a run in I wasn’t going to have much energy to stay up all night researching which properties to buy.
When I got home at 4:30 I decided to try out a quick run in my new balance 790’s to test them out again. I had been wearing them all day to brake them in.
I didn’t really like it much…at all…it turns out. I turned around after less than 1/4 mile and came home to put my FiveFingers on.
Ahhhhhh....freedom. I really don’t like my toes to be constricted and confined any more when I run. Now that I'm accustomed to the freedom of bare feet, it turns out its annoying for me to stuff them back in confined spaces. It just feels so much better when my toes are free to move around at will, and I don’t have to worry about how the shoe may be mes messing with my stride and bio-mechanics.
If I had shoes that had TONS of room to move my toes around, and if the soles were flat with no raised heal, I think that I could get into shoes like that possibly. But that’s the Five Fingers…so I’ve already got them.
The pair of 790’s I have are just too constricting for me I decided. Perhaps I just need a wider pair, but I couldn’t find any wider than D. I’ll still wear them around, they’re ok walking around in. But I don’t think I’ll run much in them. I think I’m going to get some VFF treks to use for trail running and I should be all set. They have similar flexibility and movement as my current FiveFingers, but with a bunch of tread on the bottom to protect the soles better and give traction on gnarly trails.
Today’s run: 5 Miles – 46:19 9:15/mile – HR: 131 avg – ascent/descent: 502 Ft
I was listening to a seminar about being a better landlord during the run…not super exciting…to say the least.
But good information which I really need to implement because I have been kind of a slacker landlord lately. But it didn’t really get my blood flowing for running fast. That was good though…my right ankle is still on the mend a bit from my long run Saturday. My right inside ankle bone was really stiff for a couple days afterward, I think because I kicked it early in the run on accident. Its feeling much better today, but not 100% yet.
