{"id":521,"date":"2006-07-13T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2006-07-13T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T00:03:24","slug":"its-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/07\/13\/its-working\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=503\">I mentioned<\/a> that I had purchased a second pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footmaxx.com\/\" title=\"rawesome\">orthotics<\/a> and some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asicsamerica.com\/gel-nimbus\/index.htm\">new shoes<\/a> to go with them. I&#8217;m happy to report that things are going pretty damn well.<\/p>\n<p>My first pair of Nimbus VIII&#8217;s had to be returned after a couple weeks because of a bad seam in the heel that created a nasty perma-blister. The replacements are perfect. The shoe is light, comfortable, and a dream to run on. They truly are a cushioning shoe designed for running, and running only, so don&#8217;t try them with anything that needs lateral support.<\/p>\n<p>The orthotics seem to be working just fine, and after a couple weeks of the pain shifting from the outside of the fifth metatarsal to the inside arch to the balls of my feet, it&#8217;s a shadow of its former self. I&#8217;m stretching like a gymnast (yes, that&#8217;s an exaggeration) and am feeling about as limber as a 4&#215;4, but it&#8217;s getting there. I&#8217;m running around 20km\/week, and it&#8217;s increasing.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; it&#8217;s working, and I&#8217;m training for an event in October. We&#8217;ll see how things continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I mentioned that I had purchased a second pair of orthotics and some new shoes to go with them. I&#8217;m happy to report that things are going pretty damn well. My first pair of Nimbus VIII&#8217;s had to be returned after a couple weeks because of a bad seam in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47,50,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-injuries","category-running","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}