Forums >Gears and Wears>Adapting to higher levels of stability/control...?
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
The young Mama Bear!
Now that I have started upping my mileage, shoes that I have run hundreds of miles in (on my fifth pair of Kayano 12),are causing me foot problems. Lots of little end of toe blisters and more bruised toenails. So off I go ,after almost two years of running and lots of different shoes bought on my own, to be professionally fitted. I came home with a pair of Brooks Dyad 5 in 8.5D. I usually wear 8. I ran 34 miles in them and started getting terrible pain in my left arch. I thought I was on the way to PF. So back to the store I go and after trying on some Sauconys (too tight) and different Acisc, I settled on Brooks Radius 7, 8D. Since my feet are all messed up from the first disaster, it is really hard to know if these feel good. I did a 4 mile run in them and they seemed nice and cushy, but that is not 18 or 20 miles. The fitter felt since my feet were so used to stability shoes, even though he sees me as a neutral runner, he didn't want to mess around with what my feet are used to with my marathon in October. So I know what you are going through with your shoe saga. Every shoe I buy seems to cause me one problem or another and I too wondered if I just had to run through it till my feet adapted.
Is the pain on the outsdie edge of your foot? That's where I first got it when I first started running in Mizuno Alchemys. I switched them out for the Inspires and it was much less. I then got used to the shoe and that pain went away and has never come back. Try them for a few more runs to see if that's the case for you.
Hard time finding the right shoes, eh Zoom?
Though if it's a choice of pissing off my feet or pissing off my knees I'd rather have the feet complaining.
Man there is some truth in that!! I've been sidelined with a knee/ITBS issue for the last week and it's killing me...not the knee, but the not running. Dealing with a hurt foot has always been easier to deal with for me rather than the knee.