Today, I began the break-in leading to break-down process for a new pair of shoes. I have not had a new pair of shoes since the late part of June when I started the process of walking the soles of my SG7 Generation V. Those shoes were labeled SG7 SYV and SG7 CGV. Those labels stand for Saucony Guide 7, Silver Yellow, Generation V and Saucony Guide 7, Citron Gray, Generation V. Since October of 2014, I have gone through a total of five generations of Saucony Guide 7 shoes. The first generation was a single pair, but subsequent generations comprised two pairs which I traded between during the course of wearing them both out. As of today, I have retired eight pair of this model of shoes and covered a little over 3500 miles.
All that's very interesting, and there is a long and overly complicated explanation for how I arrived at this system of shoe numbering and wear and a perfectly acceptable reason that I have something on the order of 10 or 12 additional pairs of this make and model shoe in my basement. The reason is (I believe) that I'm exhibiting some tendencies of OCD behavior. Again, interesting, but the real point of this brief post is to share in the glory that is a new pair of shoes. After putting about 400 miles (average life cycle so far), there are very few things as satisfying to the toes to slide them into an unadulterated set of sneakers. The padding hugs the ankles and the pliable foam makes the balls and heels of the feet feel like their walking on pillowy clouds. Both my outlook and my pace were much improved after this morning's constitutional.
Without further ado, I introduce SG7, BLRVI (Saucony Guide 7, Black Red, Generation VI.
I'll probably introduce you to the second set of Generation VI SG7's, but I vow to spare yo some of the more tedious and unnecessary OCD-like detail.
All that's very interesting, and there is a long and overly complicated explanation for how I arrived at this system of shoe numbering and wear and a perfectly acceptable reason that I have something on the order of 10 or 12 additional pairs of this make and model shoe in my basement. The reason is (I believe) that I'm exhibiting some tendencies of OCD behavior. Again, interesting, but the real point of this brief post is to share in the glory that is a new pair of shoes. After putting about 400 miles (average life cycle so far), there are very few things as satisfying to the toes to slide them into an unadulterated set of sneakers. The padding hugs the ankles and the pliable foam makes the balls and heels of the feet feel like their walking on pillowy clouds. Both my outlook and my pace were much improved after this morning's constitutional.
Without further ado, I introduce SG7, BLRVI (Saucony Guide 7, Black Red, Generation VI.
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| SG7 BLRVI, sunrise, and some fuzzy legs after a six mile walk |
I'll probably introduce you to the second set of Generation VI SG7's, but I vow to spare yo some of the more tedious and unnecessary OCD-like detail.
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