{"id":25485,"date":"2018-06-05T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=25485"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:39:24","slug":"lamest-version-of-cinderella-or-cinderfella-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=25485","title":{"rendered":"Lamest Version of Cinderella… or CinderFELLA… ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today while attempting to run a training 10 miler, and today amidst yet another “feels like the 90s” heat index making the training “run” more a training “walk,” I also got a flat tire.<\/p>\n

How does a runner get a flat tire you (and my Mom) might ask? Well, I pulled out one of my last pairs of this model of running shoes and I guess they’d been in the closet too long. They’d passed their expiration date. Because apparently shoes have those now. The glue that held the inordinately large sole that I need to try and correct my massive overpronation stride came unstuck… and the sole flopped back and forth on me heel until I finally just ripped it off… at mile 4.5. I cut through some backyards took various tangents to shorten my return trip home, all the while shuffling and clomping along like a late 1990s rom-com wherein the female lead breaks one of her high heels amidst a rain storm pining for the guy who got away because she, I don’t know, decided to put herself first (ugh… those plots are the worst! This guy WANTS a girl who does her own thing and is proud, confident, and cool with being independent!).<\/p>\n

After walking a mile or so in 16 minutes+, I finally decided to just run on the damn thing. There’s a new trend in shoes to strip out the cushioning anyway — Nike has something called the Nike Free which is supposedly better able to approximate the feel of running barefoot. And I know genetically we’re all “born to run” and our ancestors ran barefoot to hunt woolly mammoths and the like. But had I been a caveman my Mr. Magoo-ian eyesight would’ve had me falling off a cliff and impaling myself on some rocky outcropping long, long ago. So I’ll take my stability support shoe to deal with the overpronation thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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When I got home, I asked my Mom to take a photo of my flat tire. She was confused as she thought I was out for a run and didn’t know when I had gotten my car. I showed her the sole and, well, we staged a phone call to AAA.<\/p>\n

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What do you mean you don\u2019t offer roadside assistance to runners?! I\u2019m broken down on the side of the road with a flat shoe!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wonder if there’s an ARA – The American Runners Association — that would offer roadside assistance for break downs along the routes. That I’d happily sign up for.<\/p>\n

And no, even before this went defunct, it wasn’t exactly what I had in mind:<\/p>\n

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So today while attempting to run a training 10 miler, and today amidst yet another “feels like the 90s” heat index making the training “run” more a training “walk,” I also got a flat tire. How does a runner get a flat tire you (and my Mom) might ask? Well, I pulled out one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}