7 Miles in my new shoes!

I am now officially one of those people who can sing the praises of proper running shoes! In every running book I've read they stress the importance of the right running shoes. And talk about the big difference it made.  I was not having this experience and I thought maybe it's just me....

 I had gone to the running store and gotten the recommended shoes. I started thinking maybe it had more to do with my weight.  Running soon started to become depressing because I was starting to think there is just no way to run with out pain. I would be extremely frustrated and feel like I was not making any progress every run. The compression socks and the KT tape help but they are just making it a bit more bearable not making it go away.  Since I've started running I've had searing, stabbing, throbbing pain in at least one of my legs, until my adrenaline would give me my runners high and only then would the pain start to get dull. Just to have the pain return once I stopped, to the point of hardly being able to walk.  Recovering from a run meant lots of pain meds, limping, Dr Apts, icing and stress.

I was accused of being a wuss because: it can't be that bad.  I started to feel bad about my pain and dreading it to the point of anxiety asthma, to the point of wanting to give up. I mean if this pain was never going to go away, how can I keep this up? Full of stress I was talking to my hubby after a run. I could hardly walk and stopped only a mile into the four I was suppose to do. Hubby says you need to go back to the running store and tell them what is going on. I figured there would be no reason to do that, they already gave me the shoes I am suppose to wear.  As I've already touch base on this in my previous blog post I went back to the running store and got new shoes.

My next day off from work I took his advice and went back to my local running store and got my new Brook's. They have taken ALL the shin pain away! With out the shin pain I got faster almost every mile. Again not sure how accurate my watch is on my treadmill, it was .5 a mile off from my treadmill but my treadmill is old and could be wrong.