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I bought some trainers today. Why on earth didn't I do this years ago? They are amazingly comfortable. They're brand new and not worn in, yet when I wore them for half an hour of boinging around this afternoon, I was no more aware of wearing them than I would have been of socks. In fact, I bought two slightly different pairs, one amazingly comfortable pair in an alarming colour for wearing when I'm clearly doing EXERCISE!, when glow-in-the-dark yellow laces are tolerable, and another pair that's very very comfortable but not quite so comfortable as the alarming pair, in nice discreet browns and blacks, for walking round supermarkets and racing for ferries.
This decision came atfter half an hour of serious dithering, long enough for Pellinor to buy his shoes, drive across town to Staples, buy two computer chair mats (our old old ones having perished, and our new old ones being styoopid), and return to find me still dithering. In my defence, I had to point out that at least he only had to try on one size when shoe-shopping, whereas I always have to try on both 5 and 6, being some way in between, in a way that varies from make to make, and style to style.
So now I have comfy shoes again. Yay! Summerfest killed off my soft, squidgy, wear-them-everywhere shoes, and my chosen replacements are proving less soft and less squidgy and are stubbornly refusing to soften with walking. Now that sandal weather is over, I've been left with no shoes at all that I could happily wear for a walk to the shops. But all that has changed now. And when I'm doing EXERCISE! my laces will glow in the dark, so I won't even get lost in the wilderness. Yay!
Far too many "trainers" have rock hard, inflexible soles. Mine don't. My new ones are bendy and boingy and make me feel as if I have springs in my feet. :-)
Wow. I've used a smiley in a post about shoe-shopping. Who'd have thought it?
This decision came atfter half an hour of serious dithering, long enough for Pellinor to buy his shoes, drive across town to Staples, buy two computer chair mats (our old old ones having perished, and our new old ones being styoopid), and return to find me still dithering. In my defence, I had to point out that at least he only had to try on one size when shoe-shopping, whereas I always have to try on both 5 and 6, being some way in between, in a way that varies from make to make, and style to style.
So now I have comfy shoes again. Yay! Summerfest killed off my soft, squidgy, wear-them-everywhere shoes, and my chosen replacements are proving less soft and less squidgy and are stubbornly refusing to soften with walking. Now that sandal weather is over, I've been left with no shoes at all that I could happily wear for a walk to the shops. But all that has changed now. And when I'm doing EXERCISE! my laces will glow in the dark, so I won't even get lost in the wilderness. Yay!
Far too many "trainers" have rock hard, inflexible soles. Mine don't. My new ones are bendy and boingy and make me feel as if I have springs in my feet. :-)
Wow. I've used a smiley in a post about shoe-shopping. Who'd have thought it?
