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@dooks
they're fucking cool trainers. want.
probably not for running though. i'll let someone who knows more about modern running shoes fill you in on that. there is a big difference between them and modern modern shoes though. you don't have to spend a lot. i have some decent new NBs and they're very comfortable, light and stable. cost me about £40 last year in a sale. several people will now tell you get fitted for proper shoes at runners need because if you don't your knees will expolode and you'll catch plague. i can't really comment on that but really though, it can't hurt, and if you're more comfortable i guess you'll stand a better chance of keeping it up. i'm the world's worst, slowest and most laboured runner (i was passed by a woman who's rolls of back-fat were visible though her running top at lunchtime) but at least my shoes aren't hurting me.
just ran a circuit from seacontainer's house along upper ground, over westminster bridge, back along embankment and over blackfriars bridge. think it's just over 4k. maybe 5. hard to say as my nike+ GPS app went bananas and started telling me id' done 2 minute kilometres and that I'd run diagonally across the river twice. Stupid thing. Think i might ditch using it and just go the old fashioned, known-distance-and-a-watch thing.