Pearl Izumi hooked Nan and I up with some goods yesterday. That was cool. They sent her a bunch of shoes and clothing to test out. And they sent me two pairs of shoes, which was pretty cool. I tried out the Streak II this morning, and felt like its a pretty good road racing shoe. Its relatively low profile and thin, and very flexible which I like. I would prefer the heel to toe drop to be zero, but it's close enough. Its pretty similar to the MT101 in heel to toe drop, but overall its got a slightly thicker sole. Very comfortable uppers though. I rode my bike to Kitt field to run around the turf there. Soft surface, plus I could bail at any point if my leg started hurting. And it did start to hurt after only 1/4 mile, which was lame. I thought it was feeling better, but I can't tell until I run on it consistently. So I stopped and stretched etc. Then I ran again. This time it didn't start bothering me until 1/2 mile. Cool, that's progress I guess. I stopped and did more dynamic stretching and static stretching and pushups. Then I started running with Patrick Hunt (runs with Hartmann and Rizzo in the Boulder express group) who was also cruising around the field. This time it didn't start hurting until almost a mile. Nice. I like where this is going. I stopped and stretched etc. again. Then got up and ran another 1.25 with Patrick before it started acting up again, and this time it was acting up only very mildly. That was a good sign this morning. I'm going to see Richey again today, and I'm guessing he'll tell me to keep running easy on it like this morning and it will keep progressing through active recovery. In the meanwhile, I'm pretty stoked to go get my harder exercise fix through a sweet mt. bike ride tomorrow!
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