New Shoe Mondays

Hello, Recovery Monday...have you met New Shoe Monday? No? Well, let me introduce the two of you. Recovery Monday is relatively new to my running scene. Normally, I don't run the day after a long run. However, the Hansons plan has me running most of the week. Today's run was supposed to be 6 miles. Something nice and slow was what I had on my mind.

Perfect for breaking in some new shoes.

Hello, Lovah

You may recall that I did some internet shopping last month and bought new running shoes, just so I would be ready when my current pair finally wore out. Actually, I wasn't sure when that would happen, since I did a fairly terrible job during the later half of last semester in keeping track of my mileage. I had to estimate that I was running about 3 to 4 miles per day, 3 to 4 times per week. Occasionally, I ran more and/or less than that, but like I said, I wasn't exactly excited about writing down my slow progress.

In January, I started training for the Cleveland marathon around MLK Jr. Day. So I looked at my log book, saw that there was about a 3.5 month gap in my records, and went from there. I'm fairly certain that I'm well over 300 miles in my current pair of shoes. Thus, today was the day that I was going to start using the new shoes. Again, I'm lucky it's a cutback week.

Amidst my piles of research. *Sigh*

It definitely felt strange to run in the new guys. I couldn't really tell if it was because my legs were feeling so heavy, or if it was due to the new shoes. I ran to Mica's place and we did about 4 miles together. I then ran home and added my new Mizuno Wave Inspire 7's to the growing pile of shoes near my door.

Boots and trainers, that's how a grad student rolls

Oh, and here are the splits. Was this really a recovery run? I'm going to go with maybe? Maybe.
Mile 1 - 10:19
Mile 2 - 10:03
Mile 3 - 9:54
Mile 4 - 9:44
Mile 5 - 9:53
Mile 6 - 9:44
Mile 0.02 - 9:27