I don’t remember why I went to Amazon yesterday to look at running shoes, but I’m glad I did. I saw this:

What the what is going on with the redesign of this shoe on the left? The midsole on the 25 is so different than the 24!

It looks like a completely different shoe to me. It looks like a platform shoe I’d fall over wearing. It looks like it’s trying to be a HOKA (another shoe known to have a huge midsole). The Asics shoes I wear – Nimbus and Cumulus – are cloud names and their legacy is their “cloud-like” midsole but this LOOKS extreme.

I looked up the Cumulus and it looks like its midsole got bulkier a while ago. I’m just super out of touch with buying running shoes since I’ve been running so much less.

Maybe I’ll like it?

For now I stocked up on some of the older design since they were on sale. Shrug.


Speaking of running!

Even though I’m running intervals (meaning I walk then run for a set amount of time a bunch of times), it’s still really encouraging to see paces that start with 10 or 11! When I stopped running they mostly started with 13 or 14. (Did I already write this in a public post? I can’t recall. I know I wrote it in a training recap, but I made all of those private and can’t remember what I share there and here… oops?).

I was considering getting rid of training recaps all together because I was sick of making collages and adding links and paces, etc., and they got very little engagement (understandably – it’s boring – even to me), but making them private and simpler serves me much better. Yay! And since they are private, it’s more like a diary.

Our 5K is just over 8 weeks away and we have so much time to train and get ready for it. But, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already fantasizing about maybe running a half marathon for fun in the fall. One step at a time (literally), Kim. I really am hopeful that as I lose more weight my body will be happy with me running more miles.