I can strongly recommend Running Warehouse for anyone who is in the market for running shoes/apparel. Note that this is a personal recommendation and I’m not getting anything from them.

I just spent $US380 ($US59 was on shipping) which comes to just under $NZ500.  For that price I got three pairs of shoes (2 pairs of Brooks Defyance 2s for me, 1 pair of Mizuno Waves for my lovely wife), 2 Brooks running tops and a pair of Brooks shorts (I like to match my brands – sad I know).  They also threw in a free shopping bag (and another running shirt I think). 

I paid exactly the same amount for 2 pairs of shoes (same brand) here in NZ from Shoe Science. There is just no comparison.

I have to say I love living in the age of online shopping.  It’s just a shame NZ is so far away from anywhere else that shipping is so expensive.  I pretty much paid the price of a pair of shoes in the US to ship my shoes here.  It was still worth it though!

In other news I completed week 02 of the 100 push-ups program yesterday.  Daily totals of 65, 72 & 83 for a grand total of 220 push-ups in the week.  That has to be good for me!  One thing I do find funny with the push-ups is that if I do them in the morning they are a terrible struggle but if I do them in the evening they are hard but not nearly as bad.  I did the w2d2 session in the morning and it was not pretty! 

I’m also pretty much totally recovered after my marathon.  The residual joint pain has disappeared and I’m running pretty freely now.  I’m going to try and get in about 15 km run over the weekend as I’d like to get a double digit run in before my next half marathon on the 29th of November.

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