I was most surprised when the postman banged on my door in the middle of Sunday morning with a pair of shoes that I wasn't expecting until Tuesday. So pair number one has arrived, Saucony Cohesion 15. Discounted and not the most expensive to start with, these I'm expecting to be my everyday or walking shoes.
I put them on, walked around in them, they didn't feel anything special, they are reviewed as not speed shoes, supportive and good for a medium distance plod along. Well I'm not a speed runner, I plod along so I'm hopeful we'll get on .
After a couple of hours of pottering round the flat, I've been putting all Willows music tracks on an external hard drive because I'm nearly ready to dismantle the music studio, he'd recorded so many tracks, a load of covers that I didn't realise he'd recorded and a track called Sola which completely undid me, so I decided I better go for a run and put myself back together again.
I chose NRC running on empty, with a Kim Wild album, goodness knows why, and off I walked down the road. This felt ok so I started to run, hmm silly little trippety troppety steps, nice and gentle, felt a bit strange but I wasn't in a hurry. Up and over the bridge, to the seafront and turned left, 2k run and another left turn towards the fire station where I cut through onto the industrial estate. The NRC run finishes so I walked a bit ran a bit, feeling slow and a bit silly, and all of a sudden! Out of the blue! The shoes suddenly felt as if they belonged on my feet! My stride lengthened a little and I relaxed into the run, back up over the bridge, uh oh! A whole family or two complete with grandmother's, pushchairs and walking toddlers were coming the other way, no way would I get past them, so I hopped off the curb, sprinted upwards to get past before a car came over the top and ran me down, we all exchanged greetings and I ran on. Down the other side, walk ran walk the rest of the way home.
5k run, slower than slow, with some walking, but I've arrived home feeling more ok than I went out. These shoes will be ok, no strange aches or pains but I doubt they'll be my number one runners.
Happy Sunday everyone 😁