What Guides You? Logic or Feel?

A lot of my running career, (a little over a year or so, hahaha), like a lot of my life is guided by feel. How I feel about anything in any given moment, is how I make decisions. Besides running, the other thing that I really enjoy is playing golf. I love it, walking the course, being outside, the sun, the smells, plus the fact that it is very challenging, mentally. I am what you call a 150 yard 7 iron guy. That means the I hit my 7 iron about 150 yards. Progressively down there is a yardage associated with each club. I know this from time on the driving range, and previous rounds of golf. More often than not though, I will look at the distance I have left to go, not by looking for yard markers or landmarks, but just by looking with my eyes. It happens a lot when I play, where the guys your playing with will shout to you "138 out" before you pull a club. But at that given moment, I feel like the 8 iron wont do it, whether its the lie, how my body feels right then, or even the wind, and I'll grab the 7. Even though I know I am a 150 yard 7 iron guy. And more often then not I'm right. Although it goes against all logic. And more often then not, I don't even think twice.

I bring this up because of something that I posted on RW yesterday and actually brought up in a phone conversation with someone else, well ok actually 2 things I posted. First off, I let my Garmin keep track of my miles, and rarely do I look to see a monthly total, but I was able to post my miles for the month because I had my training schedule for my upcoming marathon in front of me, it had my daily logs, and I know for a fact I didn't miss a run. 284.3, and I took 6 days off and ran 3.1 only on the Sunday before St. Patricks day. Someone after that was posted had asked how often I went through shoes, and of course, like I said, that had been brought up before over the phone recently too. I still on the same pair that I ran my last marathon in....

I came back from Chicago last Oct. I had been hurt and not running, I decided to do the half that went with the Denver Marathon that next weekend. I was at the expo, picking up my race number and was looking at some shoes they had their. I was talking on the phone, trying some on and the voice on the other end of the line said, "just buy them" or something like that. So I did. I ran a half in them for their opening run and loved them. About a month our of Phoenix, I purchased a second pair. I trained in them all the way to the marathon, and am still in them. My dilema is that I know the shoes that I am running in are probably well over the 500 mile mark at this point, but they still feel good. I get no leg tweaks, no pains, no nothing right now when I run, except for the normal aches and pains that go with 70 mile weeks. I fought and fought with the New Balances, Adidas, Avia, and even previous versions of Nikes that I had bought. These have been great, and I'm afraid to change them this close, but I also know if I don't soon, I'll probably get to the point where it'll be too late before the marathon. I do know 2 things. The shoe has been discontinued so eventually I'll have to change. But also that this is by far the longest I've been healthy as a runner in my short career.

Logic or feel?