I went to Fleet Feet in Menlo Park to buy new running shoes. The staff do a great job at helping you pick the right shoe. Oddly enough, I ended up buying the exact same shoe that I already had (except a newer version). I went from Saucony Hurricane version 8 to 11. And now my feet are happy again.
I finally convinced DH to get real running shoes as well. The shoes he used to run in when we got married were dismal at best. Over the past two years of our married lives, with each new shoe purchase I have managed to persuade him to get higher quality shoes. And now he has graduated. Congrats DH. Your knees will be grateful.
We've been trying to do weekly sprints around the neighborhood so he can increase his speed for ultimate frisbee. It is a 1.5 mile loop. I try to maintain full speed the whole time but it is just not happening. It is even harder that the first half is slightly uphill. I can keep up with DH for about a third of the way and then start lagging behind. How is it that he can run faster/longer than me when I have been running regularly for over a year and he has barely run at all?
Alas.
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"We've been trying to do weekly sprints around the neighborhood so he can increase his speed for ultimate frisbee."
No wonder why he burned me last week down the field...dang!
He passes you because he is taller, and therefore his stride is longer. You have to run at a faster tempo to make up for his longer legs. It's not fair, but that's the way it is. Even in my strongest NIF days when I was hiking 5 or more miles per day, I couldn't keep up with the fastest groups who were mostly men and tall women. Sigh.
Perhaps if he wore prisoner shackles?
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