New shoes

Running:
With the approaching storm Monday I had to get outside for my run.  On all of my runs from work I head south and west from the office.  I decided to try something different and ventured east on Davidson.  From the office building I can see a couple subdivisions along the freeway.  I  poked my way around several of them.  Sometime running into dead ends and back out.  Good thing for the Garmin.  I ran about 7 miles in a little less than an hour.  Tuesday morning there was about three inches of light snow on the ground with more scheduled.  I decided to head out for a 7 mile run.  It was a little slippery, but quite comfortable and peaceful to run in the storm.  At my lunch break I jumped on the treadmill for an additional 3 miles.  I ran the 3 miles in 21 minutes, so much faster than anything I've run in some time.  Overall 10 miles for the day in about 1 hr and 20 minutes.  The day after a snowstorm is usually the worst for road conditions so today I opted for the treadmill.  I decided to split up the run.  I ran 5 miles in the morning before work and 5 miles during my lunch break.  The morning run took 40 minutes and the afternoon run was 38.  I have 301 miles YTD as of today.

I'm nearing the magic 500 mile mark on three pair of my current rotation of training shoes.  I'm trying to balance the load to run them out at about the same time.  Just in time for prime spring training.  I have my replacement shoes already purchased (pictured below).  Last October I bought a brand new pair of Asics Nimbus 10 at a running expo for $50.  More than 50% off retail.  Over the winter I bought a pair of Asics Landreth 5's for $42 including shipping and a pair of Asics 2140 trail shoes for $36 including shipping, both on eBay and both well over 50% off.  eBay has been great to me for shoes, but I've learned you have to be patient for the best deals.  Sometimes you have to look really close.  The shoes may be labeled incorrectly (ie womens instead of mens, no size listed), spelled incorrectly (acics, a6, Broks etc...) , or the model is listed as a feature of the shoe (Asics AHAR, Asics DUOMAX, Asics SOLYTE etc...) .      

Not much else going on otherwise so I'll end on this running update for today.