Saucony Progrid Omni 8 - what a name!
It has been a while since my last post, and you may be forgiven for thinking that I have again fallen off the wagon. Life tends to get in the way of ones best intentions, and there are always great reasons not to get up and do something.
Over the past month or more I have been building up my fitness again. When I say building up my fitness. I really mean trying to lose more poundage. But I do see some improvement in the distances I can cover, alongside the slowly ( oh soooo slowly) disappearing gut.
I’ve finally solved the mystery of why my ankles and calves have been giving me such trouble; I’ve been trying to run in the wrong runners. The website where I bought the last pair is www.sportshoes.com, and in hindsight I just bought what was on sale. This time around I did a little bit of research and found a very useful little video on the sportshoes.com website. It asks you to try a little experiment to find out what kind of footprint you have. Basically you put your bare foot into water and then step on a sheet of paper. Depending on the print that you leave you will need either a neutral shoe, support shoe, or control shoe. Needless to say, I was not what I thought I should be and I needed a support shoe.
Since I bought a proper support shoe, my calves or ankles have given me no jip at all. This time I bought Saucony Progrid Omni 8 runners ( probably named by the same marketing people who gave us Gillette Stealth Fusion Power III razors).