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May 15, 2005
Sneaker Shopping
I thought I would get on the blog bandwagon and talk about my bunions too. Like Chelle, I too recently performed sneaker surgery. I have a bunion on the outside of my right foot that pretty much always irritates me (that goodness it is flip flop season now, but I have no idea how I am ever going to get another job where I have to wear shoes all day)-and I think I am getting one on the inside of my right foot. It just started this past year (I do have orthotics but I don't think they are helping this). Anyway, now I am paranoid about sneaker shopping. I bought one pair that was good, the 04 Radius by Brooks, but the 05 version was horrible (and needed sneaker surgery). Oh yes, the Brooks "Adrenaline," previous to the 04 Radius was also bad. The surgery was effective-but only for a little bit. Go figure. The outside of my foot is bothering my again just from walking in those sneakers. So I had to go buy new sneakers today. I had a similar experience as Chelle where I felt like the salesman had no real idea what he was talking about. I ended up with the 04 Nike Air Pegasus-medium width since the rest of my foot is narrow. They seem to have some nice mesh at the forefoot which should accommodate my gross foot, I think. Anyone else-with bunions-have experience with these shoes? Do I need the wide instead of the medium? It is so hard to tell without putting some real mileage on them if they will be okay-at which point you obviously can't return them.
I ellipticalled for 15 minutes today and did some jogging when I was shoe shopping. It all felt fine. I mean, my knee is not perfect, but I am hopeful that when I start exercising again I will strengthen my quad some more. It did last time and I was in worse shape then. Also, be thankful I didn't post a picture of my foot (it also permanently only has 4.5 toenails). I fleetingly thought about it and then realized...who would want to see that??!!!
25/38 completed
-2 days-
Posted by Audrey at May 15, 2005 02:04 PM
Comments
Did you see this Runners World link that someone left on my blog?
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=482
In addition to making the holes in my shoes, I thought that skipping the lower holes in the lacing really helped and since my upper foot is narrow too, I was still able to lace the top tightly enough. I've never put holes in my running shoes before...it was so stressful actually making that first cut!
Posted by: chelle at May 16, 2005 06:44 PM