is it the shoes?

[arguchik]

i think i may have isolated the real cause of my foot pain: my earth shoes. my feet had basically stopped hurting over the last few days. yesterday i wore my earth shoes and walked downtown a little bit, and this morning my feet are sore again.

well that's a bummer. i really liked these shoes.

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[jangwas.livejournal.com]

Hey, sis.

I've suffered from on-and-off PF since I was preggers with the Sweet Pickle. During the pregnancy, I used to leave a pair of berkie sandals by the bed for when I had to get up at night to pee, cuz my heels would hurt so bad. I got a pair of berkie blue insoles to put inside all my other shoes, so I had the arch support whenever I was upright.

This past sprint, it started again but this time as pain just behind my middle toe. PF again, says the podiatrist. I went ahead and splurged on custom orthotics this time.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

again, it's very ironic...but the times in my life when i've had any sort of arch pain, it was from too *much* support--i.e. when i wear a motion control running shoe vs. a stability shoe. also when i used to wear birkenstocks a lot. naots seem to work better for me--they have a layer of latex over the cork footbed.

but mainly i've had this problem (not just PF but other kinds of tendinitis) whenever i start up running again after a hiatus--particularly if i've put on 5-10 lbs during that hiatus. once i get back into a running groove, everything becomes, not surprisingly, groovy. :-)

love to the sweet pickle. both of them, actually.