post the forty-seventh, 2013

marathon training requires a lot of time, a lot of perseverance, and a lot of shoes. right now, i have two pair going at work and two at home.

the two at work are both new balance, same model, different color. one pair has 363 miles on it and one 359, so despite my inattention to this detail, i have done an admirable job keeping it even. bravo, ace. the rule of thumb is to replace running shoes at 400 miles, and considering the rate i'm piling on mileage, these guys are on short notice. one of the two is just a tidge too long, maybe half a size, and the other's just right. longfellow will go in the give-away pile and goldilocks will go into rotation at home.

at home i have marathon-jones (a pair of new balance racers) and an old pair of nike lunar flys. according to my calculations, if i take marathon-jones out only for saturday running (12-14 alternating with 18-20) they should have around 250 miles on them come marathon day. hope that's okay with the universe.

the lunar flys... those shoes have been good friends to me. i picked them up off the clearance table and loved them right away. they ran with me a bit, then waited patiently while i rehabbed the various pains associated with leg length differential, and quite happily joined me again when i was ready. i have run the hell out of those shoes and they have around 600 miles on them. their time really is up. i have wanted to replace them with another pair of lunar flys, but it seemed that nike had discontinued them. while shopping tonight, i discovered that nike does indeed still make the lunar fly, but the current shoe is completely different from the one i have. i tried them on, and they would probably be good, but they are so different, i just couldn't pull the trigger. that shoe i have is a great shoe. they shouldn't have quit making it.

so, the ol' flys will go into the casual wear category and goldilocks will move into rotation with marathon-jones. that takes care of the home-weekend category. what of work-weekday?

well.

this evening i got two new pairs of shoes!!

like i said, i tried the lunar flys and they were unfortunately bland. so, i moved on. out of pure nostalgia, i tried the nike pegasus, an earlier iteration of which were my first on-purpose running shoes. alas, the new pegasus also let me down. there was nothing left but to branch out.

i brought home a pair of saucony kinvara and a pair of brooks pureflow.

the end.

the brooks have some sort of elastic band across the tongue. whatever. they felt good.

look. the kinvaras are pink.