Glass Slippers

So at last it is now the last part of my training before the race. The dreaded taper. Well actually I have been looking forward to the taper. There are many theories about why we should and shouldn't taper but really who cares.
I am just looking forward to all the spare time I now have as I don't have to run 30 miles and instead can have long lies in my bed. So Debbie would have me doing DIY but I decided to put the spare time to even better use.
I decided to take a page out of Billy the Shoes book and make my own shoes.
Billy the Shoes Blog

And so I started with the soles.

...But then I got really bored. Making shoes is not my thing. Sorry Billy. I can't make Pimped-up Primark Plimsoles.

So it was back onto the world wide web thing and the Nike Web site.

Nike have a service where you can design your own shoes. It is called NikeID

NikeID

And so 3 weeks later and UPS delivered a box from China. My carbon footprint though is massive.... Check where the box went on its way here..

So excitedly I rushed home today to find a pretty cool box waiting for me to open.

Check these things out....

They are based on Nike Pegasus Trail. You can customise just about anything on them. The colours, whether you have Gore-Tex or not, what type of grip, what level of cushioning and of course the writing on the front.

So I will have a couple of test runs in them although being based on my normal training road shoe I shouldn't have too many problems with them.