Let’s get some shoes
I bought a new pair of shoes. Payless only had like two in my size, and they both sucked, so I ended up following Baseball Mike’s recommendation and going to Fleet Feet, which I think is part of the same chain as that running shoe store my mom goes to. It seemed like a good idea; they at least pretend to know what they’re doing as far as fitting shoes, so I figured I could walk in and give them the big pile of shoe requirements from my therapist and see what comes out.
Dang these shoes were expensive. I guess I’m used to buying the cheapest pieces of worthless junk I can find as far shoes go, so a three-digit price was a bit of a surprise. Oh well, at least they feel pretty nice. They’re New Balance. They don’t have that curve that most shoes do, so they look very large. They are also very shiny. Besides the reflective surfaces, all of the white parts look like they could glow in the dark. I wonder how long that’ll last. The laces are kind of weird. They’re lumpy, which is supposed to help keep them tied by forcing the knot into the grooves. You can kind of see how they look in this picture. They also have those two straps going through the ‘N’ in the side logos that attach to the middle lace loops. They’re supposed to stabilize my foot or something, but after relacing them for bike riding and wearing them super-loose, I don’t think it’s going to do me any good. Wearing a shoe on my right foot is one of the stranger sensations I’ve ever felt, but it’s starting to go away. I think that if that stupid boot weren’t five pounds or so, it’d make a really comfortable shoe.
I rode the bike today from that Publix next to the Silver Comet to the Paulding county line. The normal trail part is about 13 miles through that segment, plus another three-quarters of a mile or so of that extension up to the Publix and a little more for where I kept going into Paulding county, looking for a bench where I could eat lunch, so in all it was a little under thirty miles round trip. It’s a lot harder than I remember. I figure I’ll try challenging that awful hill on Sandy Springs Circle tomorrow.