Picking the wrong shoes for the right job : blisters!

After 2 days "off", we have really depressing rainstorms going on here, I managed to get out of bed with an hour to spare to breakfast.
I jumped into jogging gear, and once again picked the Salomon CrossSpeed shoes, with the MySole inlays which seemed to work so well in the mud last Sunday.
I set out to run 8km in total, which was going to take me about 40mins. Yet, it's a scary distance to commit to. I ran to the recreation area, and there did a loop of 5km, all asphalt, which I used to time trial with a friend back when we both had just one somewhat decent MTB.

So, the wind was mostly in my face (under my hat raher) on the way out, back it was somewhat benificial. Damn I catch a lot of wind, headwinds are just not my thing.

I now remembered the low weight of the Salomon shoes, and their lack of damping. Brain wave, these babies are made to be used on soft muddy soil. Humping over asphalt is hurtfull. My heel were grabbed by the insole, and I developped a blister especially on the inside of my right foot, halfway. Yet, apart from 2 traffic lights, I managed to run the full distance, in 40m50. Way slow for me, like 12kph, but it's a little step. Especially in conquering the pain and the dislike of going out to train solo.

This evening it's still very windy. I'm setting the alarm early, hoping to do my first nordic blading session before breakfast. Meetings at work all day, and then dinner. I'll have to jog Friday mornign I'm affraid :-)