forgotten_aria

I know I keep going on at you about shoes, but:

Before I had the On shoes, I had been to a running store and, after trying out ever more extreme stability shoes, was sent away with the most seriously "dammit we MEAN IT" stability shoes they had, and was told that even in those shoes I was still pronating. After I got them home my knees hurt during and after every run, and I had in desperation to just go back to my previous "bought off the internet" shoes. Shortly thereafter I came across the Cloudsurfers and the problems went away entirely.

Also, I know a running coach whose clientele is mostly non-skinny women relatively new to running, and she is pretty adamant about the virtues of having a neutral shoe and getting into the habit of foot-strengthening exercises (e.g. standing on one foot at a time for up to a minute, hopping around if you have to in order to keep your balance.) She's not the only one I've seen to claim that it's not necessarily a bad thing if your feet pronate, so long as the supporting foot/leg muscles are strong enough to support it.

At any rate, this is all meant more as experience-sharing than advice, so please read it like that. ;)