New shoes = fail, me = win.

Today was 75 degrees outside and it was gorgeous. I did go for a walk with DH and did the full two miles. Not only that, but I jogged the very last hundred or two feet (I have bad distance perception, I couldn't tell you how far it actually was). So that is why I = win.

The shoes are getting exchanged. They have officially failed. I am going to exchange them for a pair that doesn't have the "rollbar" under the heel to keep me from walking on the outside of my feet. I think that, being overweight, walking on the outside of my feet is a coping mechanism to keep my balance, etc. So when my feet are forced to walk flat, my ankles actually hurt a little bit. The big problem though is that around only the first 1/4 mile, the balls of my feet were already starting to hurt. My ankle also was slipping up on my right foot a little bit with each step. At the 1 mile turn-around point, I stopped to try to lace my shoe tighter on that foot to prevent the slipping, but then I had to stop another time or two to keep readjusting the lacing and never got it quite right, so my feet were bothering me even more. My feet were so achy by the time we got back to the car.

So I figure if I just get a good pair of athletic shoes that fit right, it will still be worth the money. I think if I try to focus on one specific shoe feature (like stability, which is what the sales people were focusing on), I will never have a shoe that works for all of the exercises I do. May I can even get the pretty ones I saw, then! Guess we'll see.

Tomorrow I might try to go for another walk or I'll just do WATP (Walk Away The Pounds).