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SELECTING FOOTWEAR

Running shoes are designed to accommodate various foot types and offer varying degrees of stability and pronation control. By analyzing your gait cycle, evaluating your biomechanical tendencies and running habits, the expert staff at TRANSPORTS can make specific footwear recommendations.

We will want to determine if you tend to overpronate, and if so by how much. Commonly (but not always) if you have a compressed arch or flatter foot and your foot/arch roll inward excessively as you progress through the gait cycle, you may benefit from running in a shoe that emphasizes motion control. If we determine that you are an excessive over-pronator we would likely recommend a MAXIMUM MOTION-CONTROL shoe.

If your arch is high and remains rigid throughout the gait cycle it's possible that you don’t over-pronate and may even be an under-pronator. In this case, a more NEUTRAL shoe that emphasizes increased cushioning and shock absorption may be recommended.

Many of us fall somewhere in-between. A moderate degree of pronation is actually a natural shock-attenuating mechanism and should be facilitated. Many running shoes are designed to provide a moderate amount of STABILITY for appropriate mid-foot support while also emphasizing cushioning and shock-absorption.

Here are some of the variables that we take into consideration in order to determine the proper shoe selection:

Foot-type

  • Is your foot wide, narrow, or somewhere in-between?
  • Do you have a high rigid arch, a medium arch, or an extremely flat foot?

  • Does your foot/arch roll inward excessively as you progress through the gait cycle?
  • Does it roll slightly inward and push off at the tips of the toes?
  • Does it roll to the outer edge all the way up to toe-off?

Any injuries or foot problems?

  • Arch, heel or forefoot pain?
  • Knee pain?
  • Other injuries?
  • Chronic blisters or blackened toenails?
  • Do you wear orthotics or other inserts?

Training

  • Are you training for general fitness, 5K, 10K, or Marathon?
  • What type of surface do you run on?
  • What is your weekly mileage?

After taking all of these factors into consideration we can make specific footwear recommendations. Of course the final deciding factor always comes down to fit, feel, and comfort.