I have wide feet, which has limited the running shoes I can wear comfortably. Fortunately, I discovered, thanks to the Nike Outlet stores, that the Nike wide last fits me just fine. So when I was interested in moving to a lighter style of running shoe last year, I started looking at the Nike Free line. Unfortunately, those shoes are not available in wide in stores. But they are available in wide if you order them custom-made from the Nike store online, what they call their NikeID line. Now those shoes let you customize every single part of a shoe with distinctive colors and textures. But I was thinking ahead and figured that after I was done using them for running, I could retire my shoes to become daily wear and so I designed a pretty conservative pair:

And then I trained for an Ironman with those shoes, ran an Ironman, trained for a marathon, and then ran that marathon. I pretty much ran those shoes into the ground.

So when the time came to order my next pair, I figured “why design a boring shoe, if all I’m ever going to do with it is run?” And so, after many screen shots emailed to Erica, here are my new shoes. I’m actually pretty proud that I managed to avoid coloring every single part of the shoe a different color. And that design on the laces and swoosh is called “Swedish Camo”. You’re welcome, world.