Pamela takes her ECCO BIOM LITES back to training

I waited about a week to do my first workout after running the TC10K in Victoria (55:07 PB) on April 29th.  I’d done a 9.5K run on Monday, after taking a prudent and well-deserved recovery week, and was feeling great.  All the same, as I plunged back into training for my next race, another 10K about a month later, I was wary of doing too much too soon.  My feet and knees have been, on and off for the past year or so, shall we say “touchy” and I was expecting to enjoy the usual twinges to re-emerge with the increased activity.  As soon as I put the shoes on, I was reminded that they really are so very different from a traditional trainer.  I did the whole workout without even thinking of my feet, really, except to notice what a natural feeling they provided, particularly when doing weight-bearing exercises requiring a great deal of core stability.  While I felt like I had to “use” my feet, I did not feel like my feet had to challenge the construction of the shoe in order to do so.  Almost makes me want to build more weight training days into my plan…