Running changes you. Part two.

Aside from the heart rate there was also the freakish thing with the feet.

When I stopped growing back around high school/college, my feet were size 10 1/2.

This spring when I was buying some shoes to break in during training for the marathon, I was trying sizes I thought would leave generous toe room for hot, swollen feet. I thought something funny was going on with the shoes and put my foot in one of those measuring thingers (apparently these are called Brannock Devices. Now you know too.) and it said 11 1/2.

So, two years of running with some discipline and my feet have been pounded like scallopini and are now an inch longer. Who knew?