8K training – Week 2 – new shoes!

First things first, I bought new running shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 6. My new shoes are a full size bigger than my previous pair – I’m now wearing a men’s size 9.5! I had to go bigger because as my mileage increased before the half marathon I got a nasty blood blister on the end of my second toe. So far the shoes seem pretty good. I was a little wary of going with a men’s shoe but these are a narrow width so the fit is fine and the sales associate assured me that she’d put lots of women in these shoes and no one had come back with problems.

Now onto the running. Week 2 started out right on schedule. I did two short runs, a sprint training session and hit the weight room. Then the weekend came and everything took a back seat to ultimate frisbee. I was supposed to take Saturday as a rest day and then run 7 miles on Sunday. Instead I played two ultimate games on Saturday and one on Sunday. We had lots of subs so the games weren’t too strenuous and I seriously considered running on Sunday evening. But by the time I got back from ultimate I was tired, hungry and probably a little dehydrated so I decided to axe the long run and bake calzones instead.

For the record, my week 2 mileage was 10 miles (3+5+2). I find this number depressingly low but if I think of the three ultimate games as sprint training it’s not so bad!