Quote Originally Posted by teigyr View Post
Colby, am glad to see you did the Seattle 1/2 Marathon! I heard stories about the lines for the restrooms and I know using the portapotties took a lot of time. I used to wear mens 2E ASICs, btw, and have now gone to womens Brooks. I love them. The Defyance is my personal favorite but they might not have as much support as you might need. I have some pretty hefty orthotics so the more minimal shoe works well for me.
Good to know - do you size up from your regular shoe size? I measure a womens 8 (often a mens 7), but I wear size 40 bike shoes and my running shoes are a mens 8. I'm afraid to buy something that I'm going to burst at the seams, but I REALLY want a shoe that fits.

Quote Originally Posted by Urlea View Post
Colby Somehow I missed your RR in the other posts. So here's a belated WOOHOO & Good Job!!! The photos look great. I'm glad I'm not the only one who throws up my arms at the end of a half. It's something to celebrate!! (Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I do this after a good training run too.)
It was a victory for me... that qualifies for arms up.

I have ran a couple times this week, working on eliminating walk breaks and adding a few minutes over the course of a week to get me back up to my 45min-hr 3x/week and longer on weekends. Right now I'm at about 25 minutes running + 10 minutes of walking (except that half marathon... which was more like 2 hours of running, 10 minutes of debating and waiting and using the bathroom, and 20 minutes of spread out walking/stretching). Today it snowed, first big snow of the year, and is supposed to be SUPER cold this week (today 30F, tomorrow 9, monday/tuesday 2, wednesday 7). Time to break out the insulated tights and consider the treadmill if it's windy or icy.