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the running life
I picked up a new pair of runners last weekend, sticking with what the nice adidas girl told me and thus I'm now the owner of a pair of adidas Supernova Control 10, er, running shoes. I'd actually spent a little time looking online beforehand, and while Nike also do a motion control shoe (what us over-pronaters need, apparently), Lifestyle Sports didn't stock any of them, plus I had a 10% discount voucher for the adidas kit courtesy of my little foot test.
The most obvious difference - to me - is that these have a very, very solid arch support. This currently has the effect of no longer chafing the rear side of the ball of my foot, like my old sneaks do: instead, it chafes a point slightly further back, where my arches should, well, arch if I didn't have flat feet. Obviously I will need to work on this before the half-marathon next month, or take up the advice of various other people and pre-apply blister medication, giant woolly socks, and run on my knuckles. All kidding aside, I'm expecting this to become less of a problem once I do a few distance training runs; my old sneaks used give me blisters on short runs until I'd either gotten my feet used to them or gotten them used to my feet.
The second thing these shoes have is something that adidas call Formotion™ which, as best I can gather, means that the heel cushion is more-or-less built like independant suspension and flexes to accomodate the way in which your heel hits the ground without quite so much regard to how the rest of your foot arrives. I really noticed this this evening, when I was banging down a concrete pavement and barely noticed the impact. Neat.
So far I've clocked up a five-mile, a gym session, and tonight's 5k on the shoes, and there's a noticable difference (aside from the change in chafe point) in how the shoe feels, but it's a little early to look for other effects. Principally, this should stop me from screwing up my knees on the inside of the joint (not that I'd noticed any tendency for that to occur), but also I'm curious to see whether my calf muscles get a bit more balanced as they're currently more bulked up on the inside than the outside as a result of coping with where the stresses lie when I've been flopping my feet down like a seal. Plus, I've half a mind to take a spin in the old shoes and see if I can match tonight's 5k time to see if these new shoes really are faster than the old ones...
The most obvious difference - to me - is that these have a very, very solid arch support. This currently has the effect of no longer chafing the rear side of the ball of my foot, like my old sneaks do: instead, it chafes a point slightly further back, where my arches should, well, arch if I didn't have flat feet. Obviously I will need to work on this before the half-marathon next month, or take up the advice of various other people and pre-apply blister medication, giant woolly socks, and run on my knuckles. All kidding aside, I'm expecting this to become less of a problem once I do a few distance training runs; my old sneaks used give me blisters on short runs until I'd either gotten my feet used to them or gotten them used to my feet.
The second thing these shoes have is something that adidas call Formotion™ which, as best I can gather, means that the heel cushion is more-or-less built like independant suspension and flexes to accomodate the way in which your heel hits the ground without quite so much regard to how the rest of your foot arrives. I really noticed this this evening, when I was banging down a concrete pavement and barely noticed the impact. Neat.
So far I've clocked up a five-mile, a gym session, and tonight's 5k on the shoes, and there's a noticable difference (aside from the change in chafe point) in how the shoe feels, but it's a little early to look for other effects. Principally, this should stop me from screwing up my knees on the inside of the joint (not that I'd noticed any tendency for that to occur), but also I'm curious to see whether my calf muscles get a bit more balanced as they're currently more bulked up on the inside than the outside as a result of coping with where the stresses lie when I've been flopping my feet down like a seal. Plus, I've half a mind to take a spin in the old shoes and see if I can match tonight's 5k time to see if these new shoes really are faster than the old ones...