I was actually happy with my old running shoes and even though I’d had them for a few years they were holding up well. They were however starting to tear up in the back which gave me blisters on my heel. They (shoe companies) say you should buy new running shoes every 6 or so months so I thought I’d buy myself a new pair.
I got myself a pair of Under Armour, and I hate them.
My feet are pretty messed up and deformed from wearing ski boots ~200 days of the years in my early 20’s. Since I don’t ski as often any more my feet has gotten back to somewhat normal, but the deformation is still kind of there and after a day of walking in these shoes the pain was back. After two days of running in the shoes, my feet were still hurting and on top of that, my knee started to hurt like crazy as well. I always fear for the worse and was convinced I had a torn ACL and MCL and everything else possible that could’ve been wrong with my knee.
My brother tried to calm me down by saying I probably just have to get used to the new shoes and everything will be fine. After I’d told everyone about my messed up knee so they could feel sorry for me and give me attention, I woke up the next day and was perfectly fine! That made me happy, let’s get right back into it and skip the resting!
My messed up, deformed feet were still hurting though, but then this morning I remembered I once complained to the pro ski boot fitter about my feet and he brought out a knife and started to cut the inner boot and solved some of the problems. I did surgery on my running shoes with a pair of scissors and problem solved!
I think next time I should ask a professional to help me fit my running shoes so I don’t have to go through this whole thing again.
