"Adventure" Run...

So yesterday, after weeks of deliberating and researching, I finally purchased my marathon shoes!

My marathon shoes, in "run further blue".

My lovely Inov-8 Roclite 268's, with their tacky sole and 9mm heel, are designed for running on both road surface and trails, plus teeth on the toes to help with climbing up mountains - because of course, for my first marathon, I'll be combining all of these things. They also have a special feature on the bottom to help with my plantar fasciitis.

Most crucially, they come in "run further blue".

So to break them in I did an hour "adventure run" through the woods. Coach Jeff Grant at Hillseeker Fitness, who is helping me with my training, refers to my longer runs as "adventure runs", and it's taught me a very useful tip which I am now going to share with you:  if there's anything you don't want to do, or anything you're dreading, put the word "adventure" in front of it, and suddenly it doesn't seem all that daunting:

- Adventure laundry
- Adventure bill paying
- Adventure dentist check up
- Adventure OBGYN appointment (kinda brings new meaning to the term "to infinity, and beyond!")

Yeah, I went there.

(Sorry mom).