Marathon flats

Yea, wait a little longer to get the shoes. I usually wait til the week before, come here for advice and spend the last week of the taper testing them

Run it in your best training shoes. Now is not the time to experiment. Don't be so dumb.

Run it in your best training shoes. Now is not the time to experiment. Don't be so dumb.

Why not just run the marathon barefoot?

This is vintage letsrun. 3 weeks before the race and you start to look for shoes now eh?

Have you registered for the race yet, or are you "waiting to see how your training goes before I register?"

If you are beaten up by your training shoes, running the marathon in flats is probably not the best idea. If you must run it in flats, then in the very least get the flats NOW (not this coming weekend, NOW) and do your remaining longest runs in them.

don't post the same useless shit twice. don't be so dumb.

I was planning on Marathoners, but thinking I should switch. Read the letters that are typed and don't be a vintage Letsrun ass.

stalf wrote:

Read the letters that are typed

Everyone did stupid. You should have known what shoes you were going to wear a long time ago.....stupid.

Why do people come on here to just be assholes? You are an asshole cnzma. Maybe nobody has told you this before. Why do you feel the need to come down on someone who has apparently made a mistake? Does it really make you feel good to be a jerk? I hate you pretentious letsrun c*********s that make this forum suck.

When you are coming on here asking for advice, you really need to take your ego and check it at the door. Shoesy might have accidentally double posted but his advice was dead right. The rest of them may have rubbed it in, they may have not been nice about it, but they are right (and Shoesy was more polite than most).

The fact remains that you have been very foolish to leave such an important decision until this late in the game for your first marathon. Your question was asked, the proper advice was given. Now either follow it or be even more foolish, buy a pair the day before and roll the dice. You might get lucky but what you deserve is something else.

Either way, there's nothing more to be said.

3 weeks out might be cutting it close, but you've got nothing to worry about.

I ran a spring marathon in the Burn and the only issue I had was the forefoot is a bit narrow compared to other Brooks trainers and it may have contributed to my left neruoma flaring up. If yo do all your training in the Vapors and Adrenalines I'd simply stick to those though. Your feet and calves will thank you later.

Marathoners aren't hard on the knees and shins, usually; the complaint I hear is that they're too heavy and trainer-like, or they don't fit right around the ankles. If you have doubts, go with the more comfortable shoe, or anything you're used to and wouldn't mind doing 28 miles in (giving you a little warmup there).

(Personally I like DS-Racers, T4s, Mayflys, Streak XCs and Katanas, but I'm not going to recommend them to you right now, since you're thinking you should wear a lightweight trainer.)

Try the Marathoners out. I think you'll find that they're very cushioned.

If you've had good luck with Brooks, you may want to look at the Axiom. It feels a bit more like a race shoe, but still has comfort, and support.

Buy them now though, and do your next long run, and tempo-run in them, then put them on the shelf until the race.

You can shove your ego.

All I was asking for was a little advice. I have received that from several posters and I thank them.

Perhaps I was initially misunderstood. I have a pair of Nike Zoom Marathoners. I have so far intended to wear them in my upcoming marathon race. Due to the fact that my knees and shins hurt, I thought i'd ask for advice. I didn't ask for condescending pricks to tell me i'm stupid for not picking out my shoes at the exact time that runner's world tells you to.

Oh sigh.. It must be so tiring coming to this website and laying down your judgment on fools like me.

You said, "I haven't got my shoes yet". One more time: "I haven't got my shoes yet.". Now maybe I'm too busy being condescending and everything but it sounds to me like you haven't got your shoes yet.

That's quite a bit different from "I have a pair of Nike Marathoners".

So which is it?

saucony fast twitch. ive unfortunately run my slowest marathons in them but my legs didnt have that pounded out feeling from the previous ones. adistar comps and mizuno phantoms(?)

I apologize. I should have said something like:

"I haven't bought shoes yet" - meaning I haven't purchased any thing other than the Marathoners, and I'm leery about wearing them.

I did not type what I meant to say.

Now - I know you will not offer me any help because you have been made angry, so you have no further reason to return to this thread. Actually this thread has no reason to continue.

I can only expect more vitriol though.