April 21, Shoe clinic, Equipment etc

Team Asha organized a series of informational sessions about nutrition and running gear at Sports Basement. A digested form of what they said

Food - need proteins and recovery drinks

Clothes - no cotton. everything, including socks to be made of wicking material or the like

Shoes - need proper shoes. Sports Basement (and a place called Up and Running) do something called gait analysis. I guess other places might do them too. They basically analyse your gait to see the level of pronation. Basically, most of us dont have a perfectly straight gait, we tend to pronate a bit. And this can be corrected a bit by using shoes. So, they prescribe a few shoes and we were able to go inside and see which one worked for us( while i thoroughly recommend that you get gait analysis and shoes, i do want to disclose to people that i run barefoot. more on this later). So, I outfitted myself with new running gear and felt good about myself, felt like a runner. Bring on the weekday runs.