Bleedin' Ain't Got Nothing To Do With Running

I bought a pair of Lunaracers the other day. Typically, they're a grey upper with neon yellow soles and laces and a blue Nike swoosh. Mine also have some red in them. Here's why:

So I had a workout this weekend, basically it was a simulated half marathon at goal marathon pace. So I figured it would be good to break in the flats on a workout like this.

Usually I race without socks, so again I thought that's what I'd try today. I don't know what people normally do in the marathon, but I figured it'd be best to test it out in a workout before racing. Turns out it was a good decision in the long run (bad pun...) but a terrible one for the workout.

Really, I didn't notice too much until I finished. I could tell the heel and pinky toe on my right foot had been rubbing the whole time, which bugged me a little but definitely not enough to stop.

Then I took my flats off...and they were very very red. Then I noticed my feet were all ripped up. And then I noticed that they hurt a lot.

And because the shoes were for a while, the blood that I had bled ended up bleeding throughout the fabric, so that now like half the shoe is a faded red. So I guess I could get new flats...or I could keep these and look like a total badass.

But anyway, glad I tested that out now instead of finding out halfway through the marathon.

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