Attempts at Running, First Day of Work, and New Shoe Report

Yesterday morning I attempted a 3 mile jog/hike here on the east side of town.  It turned out to be mostly a meandering power hike.

I made a route on favoriterun.com that was about 3 miles long. Due to the fact that there are so many trails east of town, I got a bit turned around, and made a rough approximation of the route I had created.

I showered up, and headed to work.  All of the new merchandise for this year is just getting put out, so we are mostly getting organized.  I installed a big grid system on one wall that will be used for selling hats.

I learned some cool history about the building where the shop is located.  It used to be 2 store fronts, a saloon, and a cigar shop.  More interestingly, Doc Holiday supposedly shot his last man right outside our front window ("...but it was a fair fight, we was legal").  If you remember the end of "Tombstone" Doc was in Colorado due to his TB at the end, so this makes some sense.

After work I attempted the same hike/jog again, but this time wearing my new Hoka One Ones.

Here is what they look like vs my normal Brooks Cascadia 6 trail running shoes:




I won't go into the full description of the benefits of these shoes, you can read that here .

I was really surprised to find that there is no adjustment period for feeling stable up on the high perch of the Mafate 2.  Also, I could not feel the twinge in my shin either (though that could be because I am rolling it out everyday too).  Another nice feature is the ridiculous way in which you can run on rocks and not feel a thing.  This is not natural, but very incredible.  After noticing that a misstep by landing on a rock did not have the normal pain associated with it, I started having my foot fall on a few just to test this out, even some sharp ones...NOTHING!  I am not sure of the long term impact of doing such a thing, but needless to say these shoes are pretty incredible.

I did notice that there is the propensity for some hot spots to develop.  Being that my afternoon run left me equally "lost" and hiking half the time, I cannot say for sure yet if the hot spots for blisters will be a problem or not.

For now, I would have to be presented with some compelling evidence to not wear these for a majority of the distance on my long runs, and during the race.

Here is what they look like in comparison to my normal Mizuno Wave Precision road shoes: