Day 13 - Shoe Clinic and then Running

Although I'm posting today (11/24), this happened on 11/17 (last Saturday).
So the TNT tri and marathon groups met at Luke's Locker in Dallas at 0800 for a shoe clinic.

It was really informative and helped me a lot to understand all the differences in running shoes. The staff was great and several of us got new shoes based upon the recommendation of the staff based upon our pronation (or lack of) and other factors (not exactly sure other than experience and preference). I bought the Asics Gel Nimbus 14. They are great -  I feel like I'm walking/running on air. These are the first Asics I've had and probably won't be the last. But time will tell.

And yes they are exactly like this. I did receive a lot of ribbing from my team mates once out on the track. I picked up a couple pair of Thorlos cushioned socks. Love these.

After about an hour or so at Luke's the tri group assembled outside and proceeded over to the practice track at SMU. It's a short walk as you can see on the map. Luke's is a couple of stores down from Le Madeleine.

So far so good. It was a sunny and cool morning, my feet felt great, it was fun hanging with people of like interests...then we arrived at the track and things went down hill for me pretty quickly. Coach wanted to see us run so told us to go around the track once. I made it (barely), 400 meters non-stop was somewhat miraculous for me. I was determined not to stop. Then he told us to go around a few times more. This time, my legs and ankles rebelled so I had to walk/jog but eventually made it around 4 more times. My team mates were lapping me on the track - very embarrassing but I kept telling myself "hey, I'm out here,...and I'll smoke them when we swim." Hopefully I'll redeem myself when we swim, we'll see. Coach told me to slow down as I went around one time. I thought that was pretty funny.

Since it's the holidays, we probably won't start in earnest until Jan 1 but after my day at the track, I have started already. Teddy (my apricot Standard Poodle) and I have started back up with the C25K app and have done pretty good except today. I just didn't have it, everything hurt on me. I came home and took some Advil - seemed to help.