Runner's Dilemma #40 — New Shoes
Runner's Log | Runner's Dilemma #40 New Shoes Why does thinking about shoes always remind me of the holidays? (In Korea, new clothes and shoes were a traditional gift at holidays like Seollal and Chuseok.) I’m not that old, but in elementary school (we called it “national school” back then), I think I always wore shoes bigger than my feet. Looking back, couldn’t they have bought their son a decent pair of shoes? Haha. They would tear before my feet even grew into them, and I’d throw them away. My mother saved and saved to buy her son shoes, and that frugality has come down to me. Now even buying my own shoes always makes me hesitate. After more than two years in the same running shoes, I realized it was time to say goodbye. “I should buy a pair, I should buy a pair,” I kept saying, until I finally steeled myself and ordered online. ‘Maybe the shoes will arrive today?’ When they arrive, I’ll go for a run. How will they feel? They’re jogging shoes, but I hope they feel good whe...
