Walking Shoes

Just bought myself a pair of those new "shape-ups" type walking shoe the other day. I first saw them on the Rachael Ray TV Show about 2 years ago. I knew that they were very expensive.
I was at Kohls the other day and saw the Sketcher Shape-ups for $110. Here is a photo of the Sketcher:

There is NO WAY I was going to pay that much for them. I saw KMart had a "knock-off" version of this shoe. It's called the TheraShoe Olea. Here is a photo of the TheraShoe:

They sell them for $34.99. I kept thinking about buying a pair of them and kept putting it off. Well I was at KMart a couple of days agao and saw that they had the ThereShoe on sale for $19.99! So I bought a pair.

This morning was the first day I tried walking in them. At first they feel very strange. It feels like you are teetering on a log. They are a little awkward to walk in at first too. But after awhile, I got the hang of it. I really felt my leg muscles working as I was walking and I think they give you a better cardio workout too because it seems that my heart rate climbed faster walking in these shoes than it does when I walk in regular walking shoes. I think it will take a little while to get used to them, but I'm gonna give 'em a try.