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These shoes are made for walking... and, amazingly, even running!
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 06:31 pm
I believe I mentioned that my exercise habits had been slowly improving before Gondoliers, but that as of about tech week for that (read: late April), and then with segueing immediately into rehearsal-every-weeknight mode for Margaret Ghost, I kind of fell off the wagon.
Most of my walks had been in my regular (Dansko) street shoes, especially in the wintertime -- they're reasonably weather-resistant, supportive, and all that. But they're not really what you want for breaking into a jog, and I'd been trying to start alternating running with walking, Couch-to-5k style -- in bursts of about 4 blocks.
( So, I invested in the proper tool(s)... )
I haven't had a lot of time so far to invest in ramping up my walking program. However, when I do get out, the shoes actually do seem to help with the running segments: Last night I managed to jog almost the entire way from Powderhouse Circle to Teele Square in one go. I don't know how many minutes that was, but it was more than I remember doing before. (And that was even, I must admit, on a belly full of Toscanini's. :-)
ETA: Having done it again, I recalled that it was actually from Powderhouse Circle to Packard St. (along Broadway) -- which GoogleMaps estimates at .4 miles, and which clocked in, the second time, as a whopping stretch of... 4 minutes. Um, woohoo?
Most of my walks had been in my regular (Dansko) street shoes, especially in the wintertime -- they're reasonably weather-resistant, supportive, and all that. But they're not really what you want for breaking into a jog, and I'd been trying to start alternating running with walking, Couch-to-5k style -- in bursts of about 4 blocks.
( So, I invested in the proper tool(s)... )
I haven't had a lot of time so far to invest in ramping up my walking program. However, when I do get out, the shoes actually do seem to help with the running segments: Last night I managed to jog almost the entire way from Powderhouse Circle to Teele Square in one go. I don't know how many minutes that was, but it was more than I remember doing before. (And that was even, I must admit, on a belly full of Toscanini's. :-)
ETA: Having done it again, I recalled that it was actually from Powderhouse Circle to Packard St. (along Broadway) -- which GoogleMaps estimates at .4 miles, and which clocked in, the second time, as a whopping stretch of... 4 minutes. Um, woohoo?