Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:https://www.runningxpert.com/en/inspira ... e-1080-v10

Got a pair of these today. Big upgrade over my minimal Nikes

Tear up some pavement with those and post a report, pronto

Went a couple miles in them yesterday... I got the wide, not double wide, and they're a little snug in that area, but the guy from the running store who gave me the assessment said these should work. I don't want them to be too loose. I'm pretty sure I just need to break them in a little bit. Super cushiony, very shock-absorbent which I very much needed. I also love how the upper material feels like a sock.

These actually might be too tight. ugh i hate my wide feet.. exchanging them for extra wides

Dinosaur feet

You should look into shoes with wide, foot shaped toe boxes like ghost's Alfonso Ribieros.

washing machine wrote:You should look into shoes with wide, foot shaped toe boxes like ghost's Alfonso Ribieros.

I just googled it and nothing came up. I measure the widest part of my feet at about 4.5 inches. Extra wide should be close enough in most shoes. Really I've been wearing my shoes too tight most of my life. Even in the military, nobody told me any different and I think it's what caused several injuries. No more.

The Carltons are actually pretty narrow for Altra. I have wide feet (used to wear 2E and sometimes 4E Brooks), and they're juuust wide enough.

I'm using Amazon's free try-on service to try a couple of extra wide versions of this shoe.. cause I love the way it feels but it's just too snug in that one part. I fear that the heal will be to loose though. Fingers crossed.

Whoa! I just googled best running shoes for wide feet and mine actually just came up as best overall!

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/be ... et#overall

washing machine wrote:You should look into shoes with wide, foot shaped toe boxes like ghost's Alfonso Ribieros.

Lol

85% humidity and 75% dew point on the run today. I love it.

I did not do very well in the first hot weekend of the year.

Did pretty well yesterevening. Went about 3.5 miles in about 40 minutes with a lot of walking, but I'm getting stronger.. Had some knee pain for the first quarter mile or so then it dissipated. My calves aren't getting as sore as before and my breathing/heart rate is good. Sprinted for the last quarter mile or so which felt real nice. Looking forward to more improvement.

If I ever buy trail shoes, these will do. Hell they look like they'd be decent on the cracked concrete and perpetual mud I run in around town.

Great looking Hoka.

Tell me about your strava routes, rm runners. I see them on the feeds but I want to hear about em here. Jealous of rob's routes and curious about verb's and ghost's.

(This post was inspired by Kofuzi's race recap of the Chicagoland marathon here. He somehow made suburban Illinois look interesting and I know a few of you are from the midwest.)

I have two main routes these days: country and city.

Country route (5-10 miles), I basically run an out and back on a country road that starts a few blocks from here. The big trail system is about 1.3 miles down that road if I feel like running trails. If not I just run 3-5 miles south on the pavement, turn around and run home. It's a quiet two-lane road with tall pines on either side so it's usually shaded. If I want a workout I can head west at the 3.5 mile mark and do a big 8-mile loop full of rolling hills through corn fields and apple orchards. That route is popular with the faster local marathon runners. Too hilly and exposed for me, hence why I'm not one of the faster local runners.

City route (4-12 miles), head north out of my driveway, take a big-ass hill down to the college campus, streak through the quad, cross the bridge that made a Letterman top 10 list and follow the bike trail into downtown. Take a tunnel from the farmer's market to the community gardens and climb another big-ass hill to the old rail bridge near the paper plant, then come back down on the other side of the river through the brewery district. If you want 8 miles hook back up with the bike trail and return home, otherwise head west to the park with the statue of Hank Aaron, pass the Q-Anon unlicensed Dairy Queen with the blizzards twice as high as the cup, follow the river past the Bon Iver coffee shop, back through campus, back up the big-ass hill, and back home.

That's the content I'm here for, ghost.

Your city route sounds midwest AF, but I've never been to the midwest so I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'd like to know all about the coffee shop, that DQ, and the brewery district. Fun Fact: Around here, DQ has successfully marketed themselves to the rural consumer to the degree that most people (myself included) grew up thinking it was a TX chain. ("D-Q. That's what I like about Tex-as")

Went a light couple miles breaking in new shoes. My route is around beautiful lake Perry mo, on pavement surrounded by nature and golf carts and boats, up and down a few big hills etc

washing machine wrote:That's the content I'm here for, ghost.

Your city route sounds midwest AF, but I've never been to the midwest so I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'd like to know all about the coffee shop, that DQ, and the brewery district. Fun Fact: Around here, DQ has successfully marketed themselves to the rural consumer to the degree that most people (myself included) grew up thinking it was a TX chain. ("D-Q. That's what I like about Tex-as")

The Q-Anon DQ (DQ-Anon?) is the stuff of local legend. It was a regular DQ franchise for many years, owned by a husband and wife. Then they started pushing the envelope, making blizzards literally 3-4" taller than the cup, creating new frozen treats, and adding menu items like gigantic tacos and pork schnitzel sandwiches. This turned them into a secret, underground sensation, but they ran afoul of the Dairy Queen one too many times and lost their franchise rights a few years ago. They have a generic name now but kept the same menu with names changed to protect IP. You could always kinda tell they were right-leaning weirdos, but in a charming way, like your grandparents. They had homemade, laminated signs on the wall with stuff like Regan's, "...I'm from the government and I'm here to help" line. Also some borderline misogynistic stuff. Then Covid pushed them into full on Q-Anon territory. I haven't been in for almost a year but apparently the walls are plastered with conspiracy theory memes now. Ain't that America.

Sounds like the kind of place that has ten years worth of framed little league teams they've sponsored.

Taco baskets are standard menu in Texas DQs btw. My go-to order actually