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<\/a>My happy shoes \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
They were bright, they were colourful and the first day I used them I ran 32km without a problem. \u00a0I knew then that Asic’s Gel Nimbus 14’s were for me. \u00a0Thinking ahead, I bought another pair for the winter. \u00a0As posted before, that plan didn’t work since only after losing a toenail did I discover that the left shoe of the second pair was mislabelled and was in fact a half size smaller than the right shoe. \u00a0Who checks to see if the shoes are mismatched? \u00a0Well, I do now. \u00a0Running Room refunded the money but of course we are now in a new year and the Gel Nimbus 14 has morphed into the Nimbus 15.<\/p>\n
I will try to keep the following rant brief. \u00a0Why do shoe companies insist on changing something every year??? \u00a0If they had thousands of people buy a specific shoe, do they really need to screw around with the product? \u00a0If I buy Ketchup in 2013 and like it, I want the same product in 2014. \u00a0Go ahead, change the colour of the bottle if you want, but don’t give me some supposedly new and improved Ketchup that tastes nothing like the condiment I happily used until the bottle was empty. \u00a0I can’t begin to describe how ticked off I was when I tried the Nimbus 15’s only to discover it was like putting on a completely different shoe – and \u00a0a shoe that didn’t fit me properly at that. \u00a0It ends up the sizing isn’t even the same, many runners are finding they have to go up a half or whole size to get them to fit. \u00a0I have heard that fans of Nimbus 13 though are happy since 15 is similar and of course 14 wasn’t. \u00a0You almost need a degree in shoe research to be able to keep track of what is going on with your favourite shoes.<\/p>\n
When I realized the 15 wasn’t going to work, I switched to the Brooks Ghost. \u00a0They are perfectly good shoes BUT….they are not my happy shoes! \u00a0They have done the job on several runs, definitely good enough for short runs, but I wasn’t convinced I was going to love them doing 30km in Hamilton in 3 weeks. \u00a0So it came time to search the web. \u00a0Runner’s Mark and Running Room had no Nimbus 14’s left and while I found a few pairs in my size (even in my favourite happy colour seen above) in the States I didn’t want to deal with the exchange rate and shipping charges. \u00a0Finally I found them on a site called 33-off.com. \u00a0I went a little more subdued – actually a lot more subdued since that was what was available – but I was prepared to have any colour just to be able to say I love my shoes again.<\/p>\n