These shoes are made for walking... and, amazingly, even running!
Saturday, June 12th, 2010 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
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.
Sometime in May, I tried out my aging pair of knockoff Keds and determined that, no, really, they're not good for much of anything at all, especially heavy walking. I relegated them to the "donate" pile.
After that, I went looking for my "actual" gymshoes, which is to say, an even more aging pair of Reeboks. Mysteriously, I couldn't find them at all. (I think they might still be stuck in a bin with a couple other pairs of out-of-season boots.)
Over Memorial Day weekend, I happened to be in the Meadow Glen Mall and stopped into the Famous Footwear just to have a look around. Then I spotted the athletic shoes.
And it occurred to me that the Reeboks that had gone missing? I had inherited from my then-boyfriend, The Future Rabbi Breindel, whom they didn't fit properly (but they fit me fine; I in fact wear men's shoes quite a lot), in 1996. Possibly even 1995. I have no idea when I might previously have bought gymshoes before that, but it has to have been a couple years.
So I sprang for my first new athletic shoes in 17 years, and walked out with a pair of gleaming new Dr. Scholl's walking shoes, white with pink (and mulberry and silver) accents.
... Hey, I got off easy. It could have been the $95 MBT knockoffs, if only they'd had those in my size.
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.
Sometime in May, I tried out my aging pair of knockoff Keds and determined that, no, really, they're not good for much of anything at all, especially heavy walking. I relegated them to the "donate" pile.
After that, I went looking for my "actual" gymshoes, which is to say, an even more aging pair of Reeboks. Mysteriously, I couldn't find them at all. (I think they might still be stuck in a bin with a couple other pairs of out-of-season boots.)
Over Memorial Day weekend, I happened to be in the Meadow Glen Mall and stopped into the Famous Footwear just to have a look around. Then I spotted the athletic shoes.
And it occurred to me that the Reeboks that had gone missing? I had inherited from my then-boyfriend, The Future Rabbi Breindel, whom they didn't fit properly (but they fit me fine; I in fact wear men's shoes quite a lot), in 1996. Possibly even 1995. I have no idea when I might previously have bought gymshoes before that, but it has to have been a couple years.
So I sprang for my first new athletic shoes in 17 years, and walked out with a pair of gleaming new Dr. Scholl's walking shoes, white with pink (and mulberry and silver) accents.
... Hey, I got off easy. It could have been the $95 MBT knockoffs, if only they'd had those in my size.
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?