New Shoes and Some Cold Runs
>> Saturday, November 30, 2024
I'm on my last pair of Saucony Hurricanes that they stopped making a few years ago. Yes, they've since started making them again, but they are a vastly different shoe. So I went to the old Run n' Fun to see what they thought.
I got a sales person with a "Minnesota Distance Elite" jacket on (I think it was Tanner Maier), and I was curious what he'd say about my shoes. He thought I needed MUCH less of a "stability" shoe and more of a "neutral" shoe. So he recommended a few and I went with these:
Saucony Triumph 22s.
Oh, and 2 funny stories from talking with Tanner at the shoe store. First, he asked what I'd raced this year, and I noted that I got a 5K PR at 43-years-old, and he was impressed. He asked my time (17:05), and then casually said "Oh, my girlfriend just ran a 17:01." Ouch. Burn. :) And then he noticed my North Mankato Triathlon shirt and I mentioned I grew up south of there. When I said my hometown, he laughed, and I immediately asked "OK, so WHO do you know from there?!?" It turns out his high school coach was a track/cc runner on my high school team that was a few years older than me. When I mentioned him by his nickname ("Skelly"), Tanner knew I was legit. Just a fun interaction.
Anyway, after a warm fall, it finally got cold here - it felt like we went from late-summer to mid-winter over the course of like 2 weeks. I wore pants on my run on Wednesday even though it was normally shorts weather (mid-20s) because I wanted to keep my just-getting-over-being-injured calves warmer. And then on yesterday's run, it was even COLDER:
My phone when I woke up to run.
Windchill of -2...
... because of the 13 mph winds from the NW.
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