Weekly wrap up—what is wrong with my body? I had a weird stomach and no shortage of general low-level anxious feelings this week. One night I woke up at 2am and was just…..awake until 5am, and then got a little nap in until DD woke me up at 630. Yaaay. Tack on some weirdness with my lower back and hips, and I think that also migrated into my left knee because that’s been achey this week as well.
Last Sunday was covered in a pp, so I’ll just recap with 4mi run, 30min walk, stomach was weird
Monday: 2mi walk with the pupper, and then 4mi run. It was soooo hot. While I would have preferred to just take the dog on the 4mi run, he tends to just randomly lie down after about 2.5mi when it’s hot. That’s very inconvenient for running, so he just got a walk because oh my gosh the whining has been out of control lately.
Tuesday: 1hr, 11min run. 5.25mi, and I ran the “hilly route” which means I had 364ft of gain, mostly found on 2 hills. My new Strava segment reveals that I’m 4th on the list for my nearest hill, and the 2 women in front of my are Canadians who were camping or airbnb’ing down the road. This run was shoehorned in between DH getting home from work, and heading out for an evening bow hunting sit. I was officially 1min late getting home; should been faster on the hill!
Wednesday-Saturday, no running. Friday I was parent-of-the-day at preschool and then worked the XC meet races for our regional (division 2 and division 3.) Both our boys and girls teams won as a team and will be competing at State Finals next weekend; we are hoping for top-5 finish for both teams. The girls are more likely to pull that off (possibly runners up?) and our boys team should be top-10. My legs have been feeling borderline RLS-like, something I experienced during one of my pregnancies, so I need to get back on my magnesium. I used a topical magnesium spray on Saturday night and got some relief, but the achiness just feels like it’s coming out of nowhere, and changing shoes hasn’t really impacted anything.
Sunday (today): 60min treadmill run + 30min treadmill walk. Today was finally shoe-testing day. I purchased some Saucony Triumph 19s to use for refereeing this year since the 1080s I got last year were definitely dark gray and NOT black (good enough for mostly middle school games, but not a great look for high school) and the previously pictured rebel v4s.
I started with the triumphs and my immediate reaction was that my pinky toe was falling off the edge of the sole. This feeling was less noticeable as the run went on, but these feel significantly narrower than my usual 1080s. I tried to not over react because I’ve been in 1080s for basically everything for 3 years now, so new shoes are just going to feel weird. I did 30min and they felt ok. I could make these work. If I were running in them I’d probably want a half size larger, but they seemed ok.
Then I switched to the rebels. They were noticeably lighter, and the toe box was definitely wider. However, these seemed to feel too big. *sigh* Also, the arch was significantly different and higher feeling than the triumphs, and I felt like if my heel touched the ground at all that I had a big ramp to overcome to get back to being able to toe off. This feeling diminished the longer I wore them, but it was definitely there and I didn’t like it. The tongue on those is integrated into the upper and since I lace with a heel lock, it felt too short and the laces kept riding up off it.
When I finished the run, I switched back to the triumphs to see how they would do with walking since there’s a decent amount of that in refereeing. The answer: not good. Whe I started running 3.5 years ago I started in NB 880s. And then I developed this weird Achilles thing there the padded part of the top of the heel cup would basically hammer in my Achilles and make it swell in that soecific area. The triumphs immediately started doing that when walking and not running, probably due to the fact that I stride forward more when walking. Anyhow, these are getting boxed back up and returned. And I’m really on the fence about the rebels too. If I “keep” them I need to exchange for a half size smaller, and I’m not excited about waiting another month to get shoes that may or may not work in the correct size.
I really want to get away from the 1080 because I feel like it’s become too squishy and more of a “lifestyle shoe” than a running shoe, and something lighter would be great. But I have yet to find something else I like that’s still being made (cough cough supercomp trainer v1.)
