I hate shopping for shoes. My feet are nowhere near the typical person and that leaves me with very few options. Narrow heals, wide toe box, low arch, long feet. Great combination. Someone told me that I have European feet. Maybe I need to go to Europe to find shoes.
On top of that, every shoe store tells you different things or has different brands. Or one says that a shoe will fit me well and then another says that that is not a great shoe for my feet. Plus there are just so many different things going on with the shoes that it is just impossible for one person to know and/or remember everything. Arch support, water proof, breathable, posting, laces, blah, blah, blah.
I got new trail running shoes back in May and they started off great. Fit well and were well ventilated. But about a month after getting the shoes, the side of my leg right above the ankle started to hurt. And hurt. And the pain never really went away. It finally dawned on me that somehow the shoes were the cause of the problem. So I went to a store to ask.
They tell me that the shoes are posted and that that means that there is extra arch support and, to me, it sounded like the soles were twisted a bit instead of flat. Why would you make soles that have a twist in them? So I start the process of trying on shoes. Yeah! It took a couple of different stores, but I think that I have successfully found a pair.
Can someone start working on a way to make feet that come with shoes that just snap in at the ankle bone. That would be sooooooo much easier.