My running shoes died last Wednesday. They had been giving signs for a few weeks, and I tried to pretend they weren’t there. But you have to face facts when your legs start hurting on runs. Well, more so than usual, and on a short one.
I wanted to hold off for another two weeks. That is when the Running Room is going to have a sidewalk sale. And I had a 20% off coupon that would go nicely with that. But painful-legs trumps saved-money. (And I’m going to try and score another coupon. Vector cereal may taste bland and give me gas, but the coupon easily saves me more money than it costs.)
So I went and bought some shoes on Friday. These ones aren’t very expensive higher end ones, as I’m really just using them to pass the two weeks. Still, they aren’t cheap. And I needed them for today, because I ran 32km. Which is probably wrong on so many levels. Don’t break in new runners with really long runs.
Normally the group I’m with would do 16km, but they are training for a marathon two weeks earlier than mine. So I figured a long run on my own would do the trick. Unfortunately that means there is no conversation to keep me going. So I brought along my iPod and listened to Escape Pod; Science-fiction short stories read out.
I’ve been holding off on listening to their really long 100th episode: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov. Fifteen years ago I had read a longer novelization made by Robert Silverberg, but I must say, the original short story is better. Much more compact. I highly recommend you give it a listen.
When I listened to their Christmas episode (I’m a lot behind in my listening) I also found a lovely Christmas carol at the end. And springtime is the best time to listen to them, because it doesn’t have the trappings of commercialism. I did not expect Twisted Sister to be that versatile, but it really got me pumping. An excellent running song that I will have to add to my repertoire.