Tuesday, June 20, 2006

New Shoes, Dog Walking, & Downtown

In order to break in my new shoes, Beauty the wonder dog and I walked downtown this morning. Living next to the Springwater-Willamette trail (the section of the Springwater Corridor that parallels the river) definitely has its advantages. Beaut and I took off early and strolled into town. There is a loop that takes you downtown on the east side and back to Sellwood on the west but we were fearful of taking the dog across the old Sellwood bridge for two reasons - (1) it gets a lot of foot and bike traffic and (2) the bridge sidewalk is narrow. So, when Beauty and I finally arrived at the Willamette Park off of Macadam, I called Darr to come and pick us up. Before you start thinking I'm super lazy I should write that we did walk somewhere between 8 and 10 miles. The shoes worked great, by the way. The Pegasus line from Nike has been around for the past 20+ years and I'm guessing it is because they are ultra comfortable, über supportive shoes. I expect the treadmill work will be better than ever with these kickass shoes on my feet.

Oh, along the way I got some cool shots, including one great pic of our super happy dog.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I had Nike Pegasus shoes back in high school (circa 1988-1990) as my primary training shoes for track. They were awesome then and I guess they still are!