Nice shoes...

So, in the course of the last 3 weeks or so, I've stuck to my schedule of running 3 days a week (the days Tim is home from the office) while Evelyn is napping or before she wakes up in the morning. I enjoy it. I get to clear my head, make plans, and if I get nothing else done that day, I still feel pretty productive.
The downside is that my knees were beginning to bother me, even a few days after running. So to Dr. Google I went. And the most prominent advice I could find was to go to a running shop and be fitted for a pair of shoes that are appropriate for what I'm doing and how I run. My old sneakers, which I bought because they looked cool and I needed nicer shoes to wear to work on casual Friday, are meant for trail running and have very little in the way of support. On the up side, I didn't waste my money on them because they're four years old and still look practically new. You wouldn't think finding new running shoes would be this complicated. There are a lot of brands and three different types of running shoes offered by each brand: minimal, neutral, and support shoes. None of the people I talked to at Foot Locker, Finish Line, or the running shop I visited in Harrisburg recommended Nikes. The running shop didn't even have any. Which surprised me because, hey, Nike is a sporting goods company. Anyway. After talking to the people at Foot Locker and Finish Line,  I went back to Dr. Google and found a site that had me do a series of movements and compare them to videos to learn more about my gait and which type of shoes would be best. So I danced around like a confused monkey in front of a mirror for a half an hour and got a few recommendations. But I didn't feel good about ordering something online without having tried it on first, so I found a little running shop with good reviews and headed there. The guy who helped me was very nice and didn't get impatient with me, even though I'm a novice. He brought me about 10 different pairs of shoes to try on and asked lots of questions to make sure I got the right ones. When I told him I was doing Couch-to-5k he told me to stick to it, do more stretching than I have been doing, and to ice sore muscles when I'm done. I ended up with a pair of Asics GT-1000, which are comfortable and springy and fit like a glove. I'll let y'all know how they work:)