Nike

Sometimes in life it is necessary to take some difficult decisions... and deciding what new running shoes to buy is not an easy decision. What do you want? Cushioning, performance or stability? Who does know? I thought I need all three. Nope. you've to pick up one. Now, I've got performance with my really light running shoes I use for the races and some serious training sessions. So I limited the choice to stability or cushioning. Stability is important, but I opted for cushioning, as I'll use the new pair for training and for general usage. So it is expected the new pair is going to be destroyed. After an intense market research I've picked up a pair of white and blue Nike air. I really like the air system, as I find it very comfortable an very "cushioning"..... Trying them, I found there is a huge difference between my old one and the new pair, and I've learned not to wait so much before changing them. The cushioning system goes down after 300/500 miles, and I've run much much more with my old one. That is maybe why in february I started to report minor knee pain, and I thought it was overtraining, but maybe it was just the time to change shoes!

Today I tried them in the gym (10K) and I'm quite happy with the purchase. 

Tomorrow it was scheduled the first open water swim of the season, and I was really excited about it. But I've received an e.mail that the BRAT group is not allowed to swim tomorrow, as the water temperature is 8C, too chilly to swim. The minimum temperature is 11C, and the maximum distance with such a low temperature is something like 500m. But they are organizing a 5k race, instead, and the spicy dinner is still in place! I hope it will be fun! 

I'm also looking forward to the Bank Holiday weekend, in order to train more and to escape mentally and physically from the lab! The plan is another long race on Sunday. I'm also planning to enter two other events: the Birmingham trialthlon (Oly) the 24th of August at the NEC and the informal Birmingham-Oxford by bike, the 6th of July, if I don't have guest that weekend!!!