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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Run, Forrest, run!
I've recently been doing a bit of running after work. Nothing impressive, just a couple of miles to counter the 9+ hours of sitting about I do for my job.
I started this ages ago, doing 2 or 3 nights a week on the fells near my house. It was good, and I increased this to 4 or 5 nights a week. Then I upped the distance and moved from the fells to the beach. Then I moved from the beach to the lanes round my house. All this time I just ran in my trainers - I didn't want to fall into that trap of buying some fancy trainers for them to just sit gathering dust on my exercise bike and gym membership card.
I'm pretty confident I'm 'into' running now, so I bought a pair of proper running plimsoles at the weekend (mine aren't yellow like in that picture).
I tried them out yesterday and they were good. I shaved 1 minute off my time because of them. Well, probably because of them. Well, maybe not. The only thing about them is that I don't really notice them. They're very comfortable and light and supportive and protective - but I'd hoped to feel something for my £70. But I suppose not feeling anything is what it's all about: I didn't feel any pain, any blisters, any jarring, any stones underfoot...
So they're really good!
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