So a couple of months ago I went to Run On in McKinney to get measured for my new walking shoes and I discovered that I have clown feet. Now, I have always had large feet, but this is ridiculous – I am wearing a size 10 shoe! Something about not wanting your toenails to hit the end at all or they might fall off, so I decided to just agree and get them! Next they took me to the sock options – would I like the $11 pair or the $14 pair – for socks, really? Well, I got one of each thinking that there was no way socks could really make that much of a difference that I needed to spend that much, but I would see what happened. I was shocked at how different the first night of walking was with the new shoes and socks, hmm, maybe they do make a difference. I still wasn’t convinced, so I went to Target and bought a 3-pack of their athletic socks for $6 and figured I would give them a try. For a short, 3 mile walk, they were fine, but I took them on a longer walk and about 4 miles in, I started feeling a little burning, just before I got back to my house, it was a full fledged blister. Moral of the story, I will be going back to buy a few more pair of ridiculously expensive socks :)
Ashley and I have been walking 3-5 times a week for the last 2 months. We normally go for about an hour and get in about 4 miles. Tonight we did our first 5 mile walk and it was good. We both felt we could keep going. We definitely keep a pace much faster than we will do for the 3-day, but these training walks take a lot of time!
So, all in all, the training is going well. I bought my sleeping bag for the event, but I still need to find ours or get a new air mattress to take with me. Thanks for checking in with me, and make sure you look at the older posts because I have finally updated from the events of the last month!
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