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stevenpiziks) wrote2018-11-06 08:13 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2018-11-06 08:13 pm
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Shoes! Ankle!
A few weeks ago, I turned my ankle badly. I think it was lightly sprained. It's still bothering me. It aches. Yesterday I started a run, and got nasty pain. So I stopped.
Today I bought an ankle brace, and I'm going to lay off running for a week. I hate doing that--I feel sluggish and badly lazy when I don't run. But I think my ankle needs the rest. I can row and lift as partial compensation, of course, but running is by far the best exercise I can do, and I'll lose a chunk of fitness by laying off. But I have no choice.
Meanwhile, I got new shoe inserts from the podiatrist. I have no arch in my foot at all, and without arch supports, walking quickly becomes impossibly painful. (This means that I can't laze around the house in slippers--my feet hurt within an hour!) The podiatrist recommended shoes with "motion control" as part of the design, but when I visited shoe stores and asked the clerks for such, I got blank looks. "What's that?" they invariably said. But of course--you hire people at minimum wage and don't give them any training, and you get clerks with no expertise.
I finally shopped on-line, something I don't like to do with shoes. I reluctantly hit up Amazon. They have this new service that lets you order a bunch of clothes, try them on, and return the ones you don't want BEFORE they charge you, so you only pay for what you keep. This is nicer than ordering something, paying for it, returning it, and waiting days and days for the refund.
Amazon turned out to have a number of motion control shoes for sale. Yay! But it turns out the new try-it-on service only applies to a limited pool of items. Very, very limited. I found 10 pairs of shoes in my size with motion control, and only ONE was eligible for the new service. One! And in that particular shoe's case, only ONE SIZE was eligible. In other words, I can't order three pairs in different sizes through the new service. I don't know why this would be. It makes no sense to have only one shoe size eligible, since the whole point of the service is to try on multiple sizes to see which fits best.
Since the new service requires you to order at least three items at once, and since I could only find one pair of shoes that's eligible, I had to set the idea aside. I kept all ten pairs of shoes in my shopping cart under SAVE FOR LATER, though, and did more searching around. I found a brick-and-mortar store that might sell what I need, though it's a bit of a hike from me. I think I'll go over there tomorrow and see what I can find. The Amazon app on my phone will give me the exact brand I need. Ha!
Today I bought an ankle brace, and I'm going to lay off running for a week. I hate doing that--I feel sluggish and badly lazy when I don't run. But I think my ankle needs the rest. I can row and lift as partial compensation, of course, but running is by far the best exercise I can do, and I'll lose a chunk of fitness by laying off. But I have no choice.
Meanwhile, I got new shoe inserts from the podiatrist. I have no arch in my foot at all, and without arch supports, walking quickly becomes impossibly painful. (This means that I can't laze around the house in slippers--my feet hurt within an hour!) The podiatrist recommended shoes with "motion control" as part of the design, but when I visited shoe stores and asked the clerks for such, I got blank looks. "What's that?" they invariably said. But of course--you hire people at minimum wage and don't give them any training, and you get clerks with no expertise.
I finally shopped on-line, something I don't like to do with shoes. I reluctantly hit up Amazon. They have this new service that lets you order a bunch of clothes, try them on, and return the ones you don't want BEFORE they charge you, so you only pay for what you keep. This is nicer than ordering something, paying for it, returning it, and waiting days and days for the refund.
Amazon turned out to have a number of motion control shoes for sale. Yay! But it turns out the new try-it-on service only applies to a limited pool of items. Very, very limited. I found 10 pairs of shoes in my size with motion control, and only ONE was eligible for the new service. One! And in that particular shoe's case, only ONE SIZE was eligible. In other words, I can't order three pairs in different sizes through the new service. I don't know why this would be. It makes no sense to have only one shoe size eligible, since the whole point of the service is to try on multiple sizes to see which fits best.
Since the new service requires you to order at least three items at once, and since I could only find one pair of shoes that's eligible, I had to set the idea aside. I kept all ten pairs of shoes in my shopping cart under SAVE FOR LATER, though, and did more searching around. I found a brick-and-mortar store that might sell what I need, though it's a bit of a hike from me. I think I'll go over there tomorrow and see what I can find. The Amazon app on my phone will give me the exact brand I need. Ha!