Friday, June 29, 2012

Serendipity and Scorched Earth

I’ve been writing about a possible departure from my beloved Asics Gel Nimbus on this blog for quite some time.  I’ve taken small steps in that direction … Brooks Ghost as my everyday shoes, Brooks Cascadia 7’s for trail running … but haven’t really committed to make the jump away from the Nimbii as my go-to shoes.  However, the good folks at Mizuno may be inadvertently providing the push I need to test the waters away from the calming shores of Asics.

As part of their Mezamashii Project they let me pick out a free pair of Mizuno shoes to try and spread the word about, so these guys showed up in the mail last week while I was fueling up on rum punch and sloth:

Mizuno Wave Creation 13 in retina-scorching crimson.  I just picked up a pair of Superfeet green insoles for them, so hopefully I’ll be giving them a test run this weekend.  I’ve got 18 miles on the plan for Saturday, so that’s a bit too much for a maiden voyage, but I might try a short recovery run Sunday night just to give them a spin.  Supposed to be going out for a 25-ish mile ride Sunday morning with a couple friends, so we’ll see how willing my legs are.  The other mitigating factor ….


I’m no meteorologist, but I believe that is referred to as a heat wave.  The good news is I love to sweat when I run – the more sweat, the more it feels like work, so I say bring the heat.  All the hours of standing on the hood of my idling SUV in the driveway blasting aerosol cans skyward and taunting the ozone layer have finally paid off.  If I’ve plotted the weather trends correctly, we should be hitting around 250 degrees by the end of July.

Do they make SPF 800 yet?

5 comments:

  1. So it was you that put that hole in the ozone....... Stay cool..........

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  2. "Do they make SPF 800 yet?"

    Yes, they do. It's called "aluminum foil"

    8)

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  3. Sweet looking shoes!

    Now that I've seen the temps you're facing I'll stop complaining about the steady 90's we're getting here!

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  4. It took me years to quit my gel nimbus addiction :) Just ran across your blog- looking forward to following along!

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  5. Nice shoes. I'm still in the middle of my gel nimbus addiction even though there are _)((*&(&^*)(*( expensive and seem to get more expensive every season! And worse in £ than in $ believe me!

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