Since there are homeless people in Golden Gate park that have shoes in better shape than mine were I broke down and officially retired my 3rd pair of Nike Frees. I was never a Nike fan because I thought the quality was poor, but I am so impressed with the Frees, I got over 1200 running miles out of all 3 pairs I owned, and my last ones I started wearing as just my everyday walking around shoes as well, so who knows how many miles they actually had on them. Not to mention the 350 elliptical trainer miles this year. So what did I replace them with? Another pair of Nike Free's of course, I decided to try the 3.0's this time. I pretty much love them, I'm not sure why I ever wasted money on other shoes when I just always fall back to these. I ran 10 miles on the treadmill at 8 mph then I decided to do some intervals, 10 x 160's (.1 miles) since it's easy to keep track of on the treadmill. .1 with .1 jog in between. I started at 12.1, 12.2 ..... up to 13 for the final one. at about 12.7 mph I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest, but it was fun to get the legs moving like that again. I haven't done those is a long time. Damian Stoy is one of my local running hero's. I really envy his outlook on life. http://wholisticrunning.com/2012/10/16/bridger-ridge-barefoot-run/
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