How To Pick Your Running Shoes?

It is important to pick the right shoes, because it will be one of the essential factors to help keep your feet stay on during a run. We have completed our first 21 km run, and realized our knee and ankle areas became painful after the run. I cannot confirm this is due to the shoes we wear, but I am in the midst of hunting a new pair of shoes to see if I could avoid the pain in the next run.

I've done, a little research on selecting the new shoes. First of all, it is important to know your type of feet, if you are running with a under pronation, normal pronation, or over pronation. Okay, this would refer to the way your feet lands on the ground everytime you take a stride ahead. So if you run with an over pronation, you would usually land on your heels first and then on the inside of your toes, which give a lot of pressure to the big toe. This is natural, but this would mean that if you don't wear the right shoes, you are more likely to have injuries if running long distance. How to check if you are an over pronator: check your running shoes (probably one that have been with you for at least 3-4 runs) to see the pattern of the wear-off. You would most likely to have a heavy wear along the heels and inside of the fore foot. I'll let the videos to explain the rest of the running conditions. Pick your shoes well!

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Tell us what shoes you guys are aiming to buy!