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Last night I went to Sportmart and in forty-five minutes I got two things I figured I would never find without hours and hours of searching: SHOES THAT FIT (well, mostly fit) and A SPORTS BRA WITH SOME SUPPORT.
The shoes aren't perfect. My heels slide up and down in them annoyingly; there's not enough arch support despite the fact that these have more arch support than any other shoe in the store; there's not a whole lot of shank support (although far better than my walking, go-to-work-every-day shoes have). But they'll do. I bought all they had: two pair. I have learned that when I find anything that works, I must buy everything the store has, because if it is that good it will never ever be manufactured again.
The bra isn't perfect either: it has sharp itchy bits on my shoulderblades and mid-back and it's hard to get into. But it's a serious masher bra, much more powerful than anything else I've tried, and lordy is it ever better than what I had before. Another wonderful advantage of having this bra is that now I have two sports bras, meaning that even on my new every-single-day workout schedule I can wash one periodically. Ahhh, the luxury!
My borrowed heart rate monitor doesn't work well with the new bra, though. The monitor's chest strap needs to go right under my breasts; the bra covers that, and the monitor strap doesn't adjust small enough to fit under the bra and won't function over the bra. For a while I had the strap too low on my ribcage and was getting a zero pulse reading. Then I wrapped the BACK of the strap OVER the bra and the FRONT of the strap UNDER the bra, so that it pinched a bit and wouldn't stay without me holding it but it would actually function.
Still. It's a lot better than having less support. Wow.
(Why more athletic women don't GET SURGERY I will never know. I know why I don't, but why is everyone else this stupid?)
The shoes aren't perfect. My heels slide up and down in them annoyingly; there's not enough arch support despite the fact that these have more arch support than any other shoe in the store; there's not a whole lot of shank support (although far better than my walking, go-to-work-every-day shoes have). But they'll do. I bought all they had: two pair. I have learned that when I find anything that works, I must buy everything the store has, because if it is that good it will never ever be manufactured again.
The bra isn't perfect either: it has sharp itchy bits on my shoulderblades and mid-back and it's hard to get into. But it's a serious masher bra, much more powerful than anything else I've tried, and lordy is it ever better than what I had before. Another wonderful advantage of having this bra is that now I have two sports bras, meaning that even on my new every-single-day workout schedule I can wash one periodically. Ahhh, the luxury!
My borrowed heart rate monitor doesn't work well with the new bra, though. The monitor's chest strap needs to go right under my breasts; the bra covers that, and the monitor strap doesn't adjust small enough to fit under the bra and won't function over the bra. For a while I had the strap too low on my ribcage and was getting a zero pulse reading. Then I wrapped the BACK of the strap OVER the bra and the FRONT of the strap UNDER the bra, so that it pinched a bit and wouldn't stay without me holding it but it would actually function.
Still. It's a lot better than having less support. Wow.
(Why more athletic women don't GET SURGERY I will never know. I know why I don't, but why is everyone else this stupid?)
