Ugly Shoes

I started going to the gym last June. I started with yoga, worked my way up to swimming 5 days a week, then picked up sessions with a trainer. I still go to the gym 5 days a week most weeks, doing an hour to an hour+30 of weights and cardio. Eating right is a different story, but I have the workout part down.

Lets just be honest. I look like such a dork at the gym. I have short hair, not a cute ponytail that I can masterfully flip into a messy bun. I also wear glasses, and I don't even own contacts, so that makes me look like an ever bigger dork. Try running in glasses sometime - its Dorky. I'm a bit too fluffy to wear tank tops, too, so envision the gloriousness of fluffy, short haired, be-glassed, awkward me trying to life weights with big UVU jocks. Right.

So in an attempt to look a little cooler, I bought the coolest running shoes out there - Nike Free Runs. I even got the awesome Lance Armstrong version. Excellent. I still look dorky, but at least my shoes are cool. They also channel the barefoot running movement vibe, which truly does fascinate me, and the Nike Free Run is designed to simulate running barefoot, while still protecting the foot from the impact of concrete. I figured it would be great to build up to running in these hip, new shoes that could lead to 50 mile runs in the future. yeah......

The problem is, even after months of training, I can't run more than a 1/2 mile at a time. And only about 1.5 miles total. Its so lame. I feel like an even bigger dork. So, at the recommendation of a chiropractor, I experimented with wearing my old shoes. As though a miracle from heaven, on the first day of my experiment, I ran 3 miles. Thats a x6 improvement. whoa.

So, something about my body just doesn't love these shoes, and I'm back to wearing my dorky, year 2000-is saucony's.

In mint green.

Awesome.