How's the diet going?

This meme has been making me laugh EVERY time I see it!! I find it so funny! LOL!! Anyways enjoy that little funny this Easter weekend. :-)

So last week I went back to the running store to try out some different shoes because my 16 miles and my shins were on fire and I found myself limping. For the last 6 months I figured it was my lack of training but I decided to try another pair of shoes.  So I went in and explained how the pain in my right leg went away with the but I got new pain in my left leg that is just unbearable. He redid my run analysis and still found me to over pronate to much and said while I can't go away from a stability shoe I can try a less intense one.  I guess there are 1-5 levels in stability shoes, 5 being the firmest. The shoes I currently had were a 3/4 and we decided to try one around a level 2.  I tried on 4 different brands of shoes and I stayed with Brooks. They said because I am staying with them the transition should be easier too.

New shoes Brooks Ravenna 6's

Back on the treadmill

My cold has not been cutting me much slack.  I got a short run in the other day to try them out. Results were lots of arch pain but no shin pain. Today I did a couple more short runs. Doing what I can between the coughing fits. I did a mile on my treadmill and it was a slow one at 18 mins, still no shin pain.  After my coughing fit Loki was dying to go for a walk, I thought well I'm dressed why not head outside.  I decided to throw on my Garmin, I knew it was just going to be a short walk but I was curious at how far we walk.  AlsoI needed to put on my a raincoat cause it was not pretty outside and away we went. I decided to jog for a bit, then run.  No treadmill showing me how fast I was going, no watching my pace because I was paying attention to Loki. Just the thought of keep going and see what the watch says when you're done. As we were about a half block from home my wrist buzzed!  I had gone another mile, awesome!! And it was my fastest mile I've done in a while.  I managed to pull out a 14:25 mile.  My last GPS tracked(have I told you I don't quite trust my Garmin is accurate on my treadmill?) under 15 min mile was in January when BFF & I did our 4 mile training run.  All this pavement pounding and NO SHIN PAIN!!!! I had arch pain but I think that is partly because they are new shoes I am still breaking in. But I can feel my muscles working and getting sore but that is what is suppose to happen. I am really hoping this is a major turning point in my training. Being able to train with out pain just sounds so wonderful.