Monday, June 6, 2011

20 miles and clipless pedals

yay!  the last real long run of my marathon training is complete!!  ran 20 miles on saturday, and it feels so good to have it done and out of the way.  it was also a pretty big confidence booster going into the actual marathon. my pace has been getting progressively better with each long run, and this one was no exception.  it looks like i really may have a shot at breaking 4 hours which would be incredible!

20.17 miles / 3:08:27 / 9:21 avg pace

the other exciting news (and second half of my very exciting title) is that josh and i took the plunge and got clipless pedals for our bikes this weekend.  the first 3 mins of attempting to get my shoe into the pedal were pretty foolish, but after that, its been easy peasy.  we've been practicing up and the down the street and around the neighborhood, and we hope to take them for an actual spin sometime early this week. 

here are the shoes that i got.

we decided to go with the spd system, but my shoes have the right holes on the bottom for both spd and real road bike pedals, so that is cool.  as a quick review, these shoes are really nice and comfortable.  they conform nicely to my feet and the ratchet thingy in the back provides for a really good fit.  i tried on some pearl izumis that were garbage by comparison.  i'll keep everyone informed of the number of times i fall over.  so far its only about 0.5 (no real fall, just a wobble as i forgot to take my 2nd foot out before i tried to get off the bike.  haah)

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  1. With all the uproar about Eric, I forgot about your 20 mile run. Glad you did it and did it well. Thumbs up, Missy!!

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