new shoes!

so


not to brag or anything


but i ran 5 miles before work this morning


and didn't get hit by a crazy school bus


but a big truck honked as he drove past and i almost leaped off the road thinking i was about to get hit (i wasn't)


it's not my ideal way of waking up


but it did the trick.


before saturday's run i checked the bottom of my shoes

annnnnd there's about zero tread left on my toes

it's kind of a great feeling to know you've ran SO MUCH your shoes are DONE.


but it also sucks because i have to drop considerable $$$ on new shoes


and ideally you shouldn't probably wait this long to buy new shoes


but it happens


and i'm cheap.


thank goodness i won on that scratch off this weekend or i might have put off buying shoes until there was an actual hole in them


about a year ago i found my forever shoe


the brooks' ghost series

my first pair were the 4's

which i loved on extra hard with lots of pavement


and my current pair - the 5's

a couple of months ago they came out with ghost 6


but i'm cheap


and brooks still offered their 5's at a discounted price (about $40 cheaper than the new model)

i kind of wanted to get the purple and blue again

but they were out of those

and the only ones they had left


are the "dark denim and blue angel"

which, really, i don't care what color they are - i refuse to wear tennis shoes any other time besides actual running because i think they all look hideous with jeans.

so in 5-10 days i will be the proud new running mama to fresh running shoes!