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Suffering Benefiting from mature onset exercise addiction and low aerobic endorphin release threshold. Hoping there is no cure.
I've moved from motion-control to stability to neutral-with-structured-insoles. For some reason, I ended up with three pairs of shoes in the rotation (caught a deal, tried them to make sure they worked, then never put a pair back in the box). Anyway, I guess I went "two days in the old style, one in the new" for a few weeks, then retired a pair and added a new one in the new less restricting style, then started the cycle again. I used the older kind of shoe for my longer runs, though, figuring I might need them as my legs got more tired. Maybe that was more paranoia than logic, though.
Hope that helps.
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-- Dick LeBeau
Hey Ruth, did they put you in orthotics and stability shoes? It seems excessive. Maybe the shoe store fit you for motion-controlled and separately, the podiatrist put you in orthotics?
My experience with shoe transitions is to do it gradually. I would buy a neutral shoe and use it each week for one of the three shorter runs. If things work out, then maybe for two.
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
Hey Ruth, did they put you in orthotics and stability shoes? It seems excessive. Maybe the shoe store fit you for motion-controlled and separately, the podiatrist put you in orthotics? My experience with shoe transitions is to do it gradually. I would buy a neutral shoe and use it each week for one of the three shorter runs. If things work out, then maybe for two.