Twinsies! Today I crossed over into a new level of married old person. I wore the same running shoes as my husband, the Saucony Kinvera 10. To be fair, they are different colors and to be even more fair, this is not the first pair of matching running shoes we have owned. We both had a love affair with our Merrell Bare Access trail shoes, he still wears his in races, I am afraid they contributed to my plantar plate injury.
My Saucony Kinvera 10 is a very pretty color, I am going to call it seafoam green.
I felt good running today, I ran at a good pace, not my fastest, but I ran each subsequent mile faster than the one before and wound up close to me 5k pace for a 4 mile run with lots of steep hills.
This is the 3 year anniversary of my running journey. My son signed us up for a Christmas school run, I tried to train as best I could. I think my time was 32 minutes for the 5k and I felt like I would die for the rest of the week, I mean walking down the stairs backwards because my quads hurt kind of die. My life has changed so much since then. The idea of running six miles for fun was something I couldn’t have conceived of at the time. I had foot pain before I ever started running, a neuroma, which made walking painful. My feet are still my “Achilles heel,” but I have learned some new tricks to help them out. Lacing is still the key to my foot comfort.
I kept the Saucony Kinvera 10 laced as they were from the factory, we’ll call this “normal” lacing. I posted earlier about my voyage into the world of “unconventional” lacing here. After 3 miles, I was getting numbness and tingling in my toes. I stopped and retied the left shoe, which is my problem foot (for now.) I threaded the laces unilaterally from the 4th and 5th hole up and then added the cinches at the ankle eyelet. This seemed to relieve most of the pinched feeling I was having.
When I first put these shoes on, they felt like they rubbed on the inside of my heel. I wore them around the house for a while and it still seemed stiff in the inner heel. I was surprised that when I ran, I didn’t feel any rubbing in this area. I was also expecting more bounce as the foam on the Kinvera is “squishier” than the Hoka foam.
I will try them again, this was a good run, the weather was a little warmer too, so that helped!
