Pink Nikes

Here's the deal with the pink Nikes.

I do enjoy running when I am in the mood, besides ballet it is my main exercise of choice. I am also a huge Nike fan. Throughout my years in track and before I always wore Nikes. My senior year of cheerleading we wore Nike cheerleading shoes and I loved them! My old track shoes had seen their last days and so after I graduated I always ran in my cheerleading shoes. Now I know that is not a good idea, and I bore many judgey glances from the BF for it, but my feet and ankles are shot already from ballet so I figured I didn't have much to protect. Well, this year at school, whenever I go running I end up with a big fat water blister on the big toe of my right foot. It's annoying and it takes forever to go away so I decided the time had come to invest in new Nikes. 

On Hermione and mines last shopping trip I decided that I was going to go running shoe shopping. I went to bed the night before well researched from the Nike website and dreaming of that fantastic light springy feeling that comes with new Nikes. One I walked into the first sports store reality set in. I hate athletic shoe shopping. I always have, I totally forgot. I remember trip after trip to MC Sports with my dad in high school, and him desperately picking up shoe after shoe while I turned down each one. 

"Too tight"

"Too loose"

"This makes my feet look fat"

Many many reasons. Shoe shopping is hard. And I haven't the faintest idea of how to size my own foot and what it's supposed to feel like. 

And this is how I ended up with pink Nikes, size 7.5. I gave up, they were cute and the right price and specifically for running and so I gave up. Unfortunately, the more I tried them on the more I realized that I am not a 7.5, nor do I like pink shoes. And so, they were returned to Lady FootLocker last weekend and quite honestly I'm already regretting it. Maybe I should have just tried on a 7 and exchanged them instead of getting my money back... 

I hate athletic shoe shopping.