12 miles in 1:26:20 7:11 avg pace. I was a bit sore from my sprints yesterday, I also think even though I love my new shoes the 3.0's are quite a bit more minimal than the 5.0. I was starting to feel some soreness in my arch towards the end of the run. Maybe I should switch it up a bit until my feet are used to the new shoes. I'm going to throw this out for the sake of argument. Say you were (just for example), a young cyclist in your early teens. You were pretty good at it, won your age group at the Utah Summer games in Ceder City and decided you'd like to see how far you could go, so you join a local team enter some local races and get on the podium every race, your coach convinces you and your parents your good enough to start racing at a national level, so you do that for a while and decide you are good enough to make a career out of riding bikes, you put the rest of your life on hold, school isn't a priority, all you care about is riding your bike and your coach has convinced you that you are good enough to make a living at it. So you turn 18, realize there is no money in cycling in the US and decide to move to Europe, you get on a plane fly to Europe meet your new team of European cyclists, go on a couple of training rides with them and quickly find out maybe your not as good as you thought you were, these guys are blowing you away. All of a sudden all you have worked for, all that time you spent on your bike seems like a waste. Then your new coach approaches you with the solution. Ethically you don't agree with the solution but realize he's probably right, what do you do? Get back on the plane, fly back home giving up all your life time dreams, or move on to the next level? I actually rode with a guy in high school that went through that very ordeal. He now works at Bingham Cyclery in Sunset. If you get these running tights you can see if you're getting a stress fracture as you run. http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/10/18/nike-exclusive-print-x-ray-tights/
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