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Week 1 Day 1 Blues

EVIL SOCK EATING SHOES! At least that's how my shoes feel still. Maybe it's a Nike thing. I tried to do W1D1 again today. This is the 4th try. I'm still not getting through it and I'm starting to get frustrated with the whole thing. But I need a goal and this is a doable one. My feet are unevenly flat. I did a foot scan and my left is flatter than my right. So I think what I need is more arch support in my right shoe and to just break in my left shoe. My feet and calves hurt a whole lot less than they did with the other shoes. And my ankle doesn't ache at all. Good things. The bad thing is that it's raining. I tried using a different treadmill, but I hated it. So I braved the rain. The back of my pants are soaked. It feels like as soon as I fix one problem, there's another one to deal with. I can't afford to keep up! So I made a runner's wishlist and posted it as a sidebar thing. I'm sure there will always be something in it as I can ...

Trying to Stay Positive!

http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/en_US/plus/#//runs/detail/268666208/142001870//all/allRuns?sitesrc=fbk_ab_plus The good news is my lungs are starting to keep up. One whiff on the really old albuterol seems to keep me breathing without pain. The bad news is that I think I'm allergic to treadmills. I started out by stretching my calves really well this time because I didn't want to get the shin splints again. They're still a bit sore to be honest. I did that and then I started the C25K on the treadmill. I adjusted the grade to 7% at first and kind of played with it and found that 6% was pretty good. But once I started to just go, my calves started to hurt. And then my feet started to ache too. I stopped and stretched again to try to alleviate some of the tightness in my calves, but they just got worse. The arches in my feet hurt so bad I thought I would fall off the treadmill. So I decided to try running outside in the blistering cold windchill. I tried ...