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Back in the saddle... not so fast

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So as I previously blogged about I've been trying to get back on my fitness game.  And let me tell you it's not as easy as I thought it would be.  Everyone keeps saying that I'll be back to my old self in no time but for me it's not happening fast enough.  And on top of that I've been having setbacks.    First thing I did was buy some new running shoes since my old ones had holes in them.  I went to the running store and learned that my regular shoe model was discontinued and Asics came out with a new model, the GT-2000.  Now the woman who fitted me at the running store gave me a 9.5 shoe.  I knew it was too big but she was the "expert" so I went with it. Well after running 2 days in them my foot, ankle and knee were killing me. So I took them back ( you get 2 weeks to return them).  Then I was given a half a size smaller. I thought that would do the trick, but nope ankle and knee still hurt when I ran.This was a blow to the system. So I tried running i