Over 50 Running

I have just completed five consecutive days of running a 3.5-mile route in the Butler Farms neighborhood of South Burlington, Vermont. I used a different pair of running shoes each day. Sunday, August 9, 2026 - Asics Glideride Max 2 - 72 °F - 9:11/mile - 31:52 Monday, August 10, 2026 - Nike Vomero Plus - 76 °F - 8:51/mile - 31:03 Tuesday, August 11, 2026 - Asics Superblast 3 - 63 °F - 8:26/mile - 29:34 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 - Asics Megablast - 64 °F - 8:37/mile - 30:16 Thursday, August 13, 2026 - Nike Zoom Fly 6 - 62 °F - 8:44/mile - 30:40 Why Superblast 3 Won The Superblast 3 was the fastest because of energy return from the heel. I was taking it easy on my legs trying to avoid injury and just going with what the shoes made comfortable. The Superblast 3 seemed to have the best shock absorption and energy return in the heel. I didn't have to expend energy trying to make the landings soft. I could slam into the heel as hard as possible over and over again, no problem.  Megablas...

We ran the 14.7-mile Moosalamoo trail run in Goshen, Vermont yesterday. Goshen is only about an hour from where we live in South Burlington, Vermont, and yet this might have been my first time there. It's a rural town up in the mountains that isn't too far away from the Champlain Valley. It's basically the Middlebury area, and Middlebury is up there with Richmond and Stowe, mentioned previously, as one of my favorite Vermont towns. Goshen includes the Moosalamoo National Recreation Area plus some nice, rural, Vermont mountain neighborhoods, similar to Middlesex, Vermont where I lived from 2006 to 2022. I was sold on Goshen right away, especially with the Moosalamoo area, which did seem worthy of being one of 41 "National Recreation Areas" in the United States.  The weather and trail conditions were fantastic. I finished in around 3 hours and 50 minutes (3:50). That included large sections of walking. My Adidas Agravic SL trail running shoes gave me blisters in the...