The Shoe Dilemma 2015…   Now I am not going to say the Shoe Dilemma 2015 is over but in the ON Cloudrunners at Hampstead Heath Parkun I just clocked my fastest average time since I destroyed my 10K and half marathon personal bests at Eton Dorney, and only 9 seconds slower than then and,…

The Old Time Shoe Dilemma Continued…   This weekend was one of those weekends that we runners hate. I paid for the hotel in advance to get the best rate, I paid for train tickets and then… I was injured so couldn’t run the Relish Events Two Tunnels 10K. It was a sensible choice not…

The Old Time Shoe Dilemma Continued…   My back is absolutely killing me so no Parkrun at Hampstead Heath this morning. I will get back to it next weekend, I promise. This weekend is a trip to Bath for the Relish Events Two Tunnels 10k, and what is apparently the UK’s longest underground race. Yes,…

The Old Time Shoe Dilemma or… My Feet Won’t Make it to Berlin, go on without me… I am having a crisis of shoe. I thought I had it nailed. After years bouncing around between every possible running shoe you can think of, starting with Brooks The Beast back in March 2012, realising my Morton’s…

The first combination… The Candidates So the first combination was my 2XU calf sleeves (size S as measured by the lady at Runners Need), Brooks Ghost 7 2E (as recommended by the internet for flat feet),  and padded Balega socks. Combo 1 The plan with all these shoes and socks and sleeve combinations is to…