The All New MSE Running Club.

rainbowfairydust

do trainers stretch at all? I have had to buy a new pair of trainers due to losing one in a field at weekend (cat went missing so went to look for her - lost my balance and foot went calf deep in mud/cow poop :eek: so i ended up binning them as they were old ).

Anyway new trainers have given me a blister (they were not hugley expensive - £35 i think) so wondering if they will stretch abit & "adjust" to my feet.

Indie_Kid

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

Anyway new trainers have given me a blister (they were not hugley expensive - £35 i think) so wondering if they will stretch abit & "adjust" to my feet.

Are they too big? Because this is the only reason why I got blisters from my trail shoes.

rainbowfairydust

Indie_Kid wrote: »

Are they too big? Because this is the only reason why I got blisters from my trail shoes.

no - when i put them on they fit fine but when i start running they feel too tight and pinch at the heel area. I have been doing some googling and it seems that some people recommend that you should buy the next size up - is this the case?

Lizling

Generally a half size or a full size bigger, yup. Your feet swell slightly when they get hot.

Indie_Kid

I can get generally get away with the same size that I use for shoes. But it does depend on the brand and model. There's a certain make of Asics where I need to go up 1.5 sizes. Yet, I wear my normal size for their other models.

rainbowfairydust

Lizling wrote: »

Generally a half size or a full size bigger, yup. Your feet swell slightly when they get hot.

yea i dont know why i didnt take this into account when i purchased them ..:doh:

Indie_Kid wrote: »

I can get generally get away with the same size that I use for shoes. But it does depend on the brand and model. There's a certain make of Asics where I need to go up 1.5 sizes. Yet, I wear my normal size for their other models.

it was asics that i bought on saturday actually ..ended up going to a specialist running shop after work and the guy who served me told me that the shoes were too small as there wasnt enough gap at the toe end. I had to do a run on the tread mill so he could watch how i ran and have ended up with another pair of trainers which are lovely and comfortable but a size bigger than my normal shoe size. Not sure what i am going to do with the asics? May keep them a while and poss sell them if i dont wear them.

thor

Lizling wrote: »

If replacing my shoes when they feel wrong and start to hurt my feet is being gullible, then I'll carry on being gullible, tyvm.


I think it would be much more accurate to say that they MIGHT last far longer than 500 miles, depending on the surfaces you run on, your gait, weight, whether or not you put them in the washing machine, wearing them day in day out versus alternating them with another pair, other activities you use them for that don't count towards your running mileage...

I'm a moderate runner getting about 600 to 700 miles per year under my belt. I run on roads and pavements, don't wash my trainers or use them for anything else and in the 15 years that I have been jogging I have only ever had to replace my trainers once. I went from a £30 pair to a £20 one. My new trainers are now 2 and a half years old and looking at the wear and tear on them, I would be extremely disappointed if they did not last at least til the end of the decade.
In my opinion, people get too hung up on analysing gaits and buying expensive running shoes.

Indie_Kid

You're lucky then. I don't just run on roads and pavements on mine. And the cost doesn't make any difference I've found.

fufu_banterwaite

Lizling wrote: »

If replacing my shoes when they feel wrong and start to hurt my feet is being gullible, then I'll carry on being gullible, tyvm.

I think it would be much more accurate to say that they MIGHT last far longer than 500 miles, depending on the surfaces you run on, your gait, weight, whether or not you put them in the washing machine, wearing them day in day out versus alternating them with another pair, other activities you use them for that don't count towards your running mileage...

Sorry Lizling you are misguided.

Did you know that until 1972 when Nike invented the modern athletic shoe people ran in very thin soled shoes, had strong feet and had much lower incidence of knee injuries?

We shield our feet from their natural positions by providing more and more support. There is a statistic that every year 65 to 80% I think of runners suffer an injury each year. And think that over the past 30 years running shoe companies have had a quarter of a century to perfect their designs, so you would think that injury rate must be falling? Nope, since the first real studies in the late 70's Achilles complaints have actually increased by 10% whilst plantar fascitis has remained the same.

So these ultra cushioned, ultra advanced running shoes have made things worse.

If you read the book Born to Run it details how studies have shown runners in shoes that cost $95 plus are more than twice as likely to get injured as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.

You actually don't need to replace your trainers because as as shoes wear down and cushioning thins you gain more foot control and your feet stabilize. Arthur Newton, one of the great ultramarathon runners, would replace his thin rubber soled trainers every 4,000 miles. Kenyan runners are never injured as up until the age of 17 they run in barefeet. If your trainers wear down and the soles get thin it is a good thing, big cushioned soles encourage heel striking and increase injuries.

We are told we need to replace our trainers every 300 to 500 miles. It is a marketing ploy to buy more running trainers, trainers that make us run unnaturally, that make us land on our heels and that increase injuries rates.

Let the sole wear thin and run as we always had done until the Nike Cortez was invented in 1972. It is much safer.

Indie_Kid

Someone else said that to me too. But when my first pair started wearing, they left me unable to put weight on one leg. That was October 2012. I still sometimes get problems with that hip.