Harold Being Harold

Tag: Running Shoes

  • My Running Progress – March 12, 2022

    Since I changed the focus of my blog, I haven’t written much about my progress as a runner and other things going in life that I consider important. So, in my infinite wisdom, once a week, I get to have fun and update where I am with my running, what is going on in the…

  • Running Shoes of the Year — 2021

    This year has been another where the COVID-19 pandemic has forced its will upon my running and many other parts of my life. Despite promising to cut back on the number of running shoes I was going to get in 2021, more than 25 pairs found their way on my feet.  Looking back, buying too…

  • Quarry Road Tails — What’s Not to Love — Mud, snow, hoar frost, etc.

    The day before our Holiday season officially begins, the overeating, over-spending and all the other “overs”.  This week is not a training week, it is more enjoy, run how and where I want. So today, was a day for relaxing a little and finally getting out the Salomon Speedcross 5s that I got last month…

  • Saucony Endorphin Speed v2 — 50 Mile Review

    Adding my words of praise about the Saucony Endorphin Speed 2’s, is only adding more to what most readers already heard. The the Speed 2s are a great shoe and if I had to choose a running shoe as my shoe of the year today – they would be it, without having to think about…

  • Puma Deviate Nitro – End of Use Review

    Not all running shoe reviews are going to be great.  We are all different and I know that some runners love to bash running shoes that don’t work for them and claim it is a terrible running shoe. However, that same shoe may be someone else’s Unicorn shoe. So, before bashing a pair, stop and…

  • The Elusive Unicorn Running Shoes

    Over all the years I have been blogging about running, I write an awful lot about the quest I have been on to find my mythological Unicorn running shoe.  So, as I go through this new blog’s first week, it is fitting to describe what my Unicorn running shoe would be like. This quest is…

  • 361 Degree Flame — 25 Mile Review

    The 361 Degree Flames are a 2021 model that was released in the Spring and I got them through a sweet deal on eBay for $35, plus shipping in September. If I had to guess, they had less than 20 miles on them when they came in. This means that I got very, very lucky…

  • Surprise 5K — November 12, 2021

    I have decided that on my runlog posts, that I won’t bother with doing one for most of the routine easy or recovery runs, where I simply go out to put in the mileage and not much else happens along the way. Not too many people including myself are interested in the thoughts of an…

  • Yes, I will be doing a few Running Shoe Reviews

    I will be honest, I missed writing reviews about my running shoes over the past few years. Now that I have moved over to this blog, and will be focusing more on what I enjoy writing about, I plan to write about the running shoes I actually run in.  However, writing running shoe reviews or…

  • Unicorn Running Shoes — Maybe?

    I am a long-time shoe geek who generally goes through over 20 pairs of running shoes most years. Most of the reason is that I have been looking for that mythical “Unicorn” running shoe. The ones that fit my Hobbit feet correctly and has a ride that I love. Finding them has been almost as…

  • First Run in my New Balance Beacon V1 #2 – 1-5-20

    This morning I had a bit of a conundrum about which shoes to wear for my treadmill workout this morning and finally ended up decided to break out my the New Balance Beacon v1 that I got for Christmas. You can read more about it here. It was definitely the correct choice. They are a…

  • Too Many Choices = Not Always What is Best

    We are definitely in the land of plenty here in the United States and many of us have too damn much stuff. There are so many choices regarding what we buy, use or even keep in our homes that it is almost a distraction. If you stop and think about it, there is no almost…