At Least I Have a Plan...

I took the NB shoes out for a spin yesterday and low and behold, at around 5 miles, the twinges started. In a half mile or so, I had a pretty persistent aching in balls and arches. I continued until about 6.5 to convince myself that I was going down the same path. It was fairly obvious at this point... The recovery is not so bad since I didn't go any further.

In the meantime, Tom and I decided I would go back to Fitness Sports and work with his friend, one of the owners. He had me run and we talked for nearly an hour. I think I have him a little stumped. However, there seems to be a lot of swelling going on, despite that the shoes should have ample room.

Also, I may not be over pronating as much as I thought. My arches collapse but my toes do not go out and have me roll off the inside of the foot. My feet stay fairly straight. He thinks that I might be collapsing so far that my toes curl up to avoid hitting, everything tenses up and takes more of a beating. We are going to try a stronger orthotic for my arch -- going more toward stability than motion control. He also gave me the name of 3 foot specialists. I guess that means it could be the shoes, but it could be me....

I'm hoping to try a long enough run tomorrow to get some information. That's not just a cool graphic, that's me in all the different flavors of shoes I have tried!!