From the Volt

I've been wearing my current pair of Nike Lunarglide 6 running shoes for over a year and a half, and they've racked up a lot of miles. I've trained for & run 10k's & half marathons in them and they're definitely reaching the end of their life.

One of the reasons I hadn't replaced them yet was that I really don't like this years Lunarglide 7 (Plus spending sneaker money on basketball shoes is tons more exciting than running shoes). While they haven't changed a whole lot from the 6's I really dislike the toebox, which is a really loose material, and I much prefer the more structured shape of the 6's.

So I did a little hunting online and found a store that still had the Lunarglide 6 in my size. Because they're an old model I got them at a great discounted price, however that did mean I was pretty limited in the colours available, but decided this pair in Volt/Flash Lime/Liquid Lime are just the right side of too loud.

As I mentioned in my post about the Nike Hyper Elite basketball socks last week I think its definitely worth investing in good ahtletics socks. So with that in mind I added a two pack of Nike running socks to the order so the new shoes are extra comfy.

Run Forest Run

I swung by Nike Town on my lunch break today and picked up a pair of the new Lunarglide 6 shoes. I was really impressed when the ID version went up on the Nike site in June, but thought I'd wait for a general release version, and I'm glad I did as I really love this white/hyper crimson/hyper cobalt colourway.

I've been running in the Gyakusou version of the Lunarglide 4 for the last year, and definitely clocked up the 500 miles that seems to be the consensus milage for a change of shoes. Before that I was wearing the Lunarglide 3's and the series seem to suit me really well. I ran in them this evening and it was a little strange running in a new shoe, but after a couple of runs they'll be broken in nicely.

My now retired Gyakusou Lunarglide 4s.