New Shoes

It's surprising when you buy new shoes how you can feel the spring in them. It's even more surprising how quickly this spring goes from the shoes.

A few weeks and those nice clean, shiny, spring shoes are filthy, falling apart and that spring you really enjoyed when you tried them on in the shop has gone flat.

Or is it just my running style? Do I destroy shoes that quickly? I did try a make with airpockets - several pairs over the course of a few years, and in every pair the left air pocket burst! The record was the second run, when I caught a pin on the path. But run on wet grass in shoes with a burst air pocket and everyone can here the air going in and out - quite a few comments in that race!