Marching On...

[OakLeaf]

Ah, when I turn my socks inside out I see what you mean. It's not one of my trouble spots, so I'd never noticed before. The toe construction of the Icebreaker socks is similar to the Tekos and those would probably work for you too. SmartWool probably would not.

You might just try a pair of Injinjis and see if you like toe socks. There's really a lot I like about them, but I prefer more cushion, which isn't possible with toe socks.

ETA - I just remembered I have two pairs of Coolmax Injinjis that someone bought me a few years back, that are too small for me and I never got around to exchanging. They're size small, US women's 6-8.5 or Euro 37-39.5, one pair white micro height original weight, one pair grey no show lightweight, new in packages, if you want either or both they're yours, just PM me with an address.



Monday will be three weeks out. Today, anyway, I'm feeling strong. Turned over 200 miles for March on my way back from yoga this morning and there's still three more running days in the month (tomorrow's my day off - bike to farmers market, buy cookies, eat cookies ). Feeling relaxed and rested at the end of a 54-mile week ... new territory for me! I've struggled with the heat this late spring, every workout "fail" has been due to a sudden rise in temperature, but I feel really good about the workouts I've done in more moderate temps, so here's hoping that the snow melts in Boston before race day but the temperature stays below 70 and hopefully closer to 50!


I just have to give a plug to aerial yoga in this thread. My studio only started offering aerial after my injury, and it wasn't until this winter that I felt like my shoulders were stable enough to try it, but now, it is such an incredibly wonderfully great complement to running! Even if all you do is hang upside down in the sling, it's gentle oscillating traction to counteract the compressing impacts of running. Every Sunday for most of the winter my routine has been bike to the studio and park there, do one of my two hardest running workouts of the week, aerial class, bike home - and it's been just amazing. I'm getting a kite of my own so I can hang whenever I want, and get the upper body pulling work as well. Basically anything you can do with a TRX you can do with a kite, though it's less adjustable for length - plus all the ways you can use it for support and inversion. I just love it!