I bought some new shoes from Road Runners in Boulder, which was a great experience. They measure progression, arches, check your gait with video, and make recommendations on insoles and shoes. The next step would be custom insoles, but that's cost prohibitive for me, and the number of insoles available at Road Runners made it just about a custom fit any way.
Eventually, I'll be getting another pair of the same shoe and same insole so I can alternate between the two pairs during training. This way neither pair is past it's prime before the race.
I'm not looking for a Boston qualifying time or anything like that. I just want to run the whole thing and finish it. I've still got a nagging pulled groin, and I can feel it slowing me down a great deal. Today, I ran the mileage for day 2--Though I'm actually on day 3. Yesterday was a little busier than normal, and I didn't get a true lunch break at work which is where I had planned to do my 5 milers.
Also, lingering pain from a pulled groin 4 weeks ago is still slowing me down. today's run took me right at 50 minutes and running over the ice and snow was brutal. Every time my foot slipped, it stressed the injured muscle and though I feel like I didn't re-injure it, I definitely could feel that it didn't want to work the way it normally does. I should be able to do these runs in 40-42 min.
I weighed myself the other day and I've actually got up to 170. I"m lifting a little more, and I can tell my arms are bigger, but the same unfortunately goes for my waist so hopefully by the mid point of my training I'll be back down to about 160.
So that's my goal. I've got 6 miles on the schedule for tomorrow, run a marathon in May, and hopefully lose 10 to 15 lbs of well, lets call it baby sympathy weight.
Hopefully, I'll be writing tomorrow that I did get my 6 miler in and the time for that run.
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