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@HatBeard
my support trainers fucked my feet up this time last year and i could barely walk for 2 weeks after a hard 10k. mostly because i have a very high arch and even though gait analysis showed i over pronate a bit the bigger issue is support shoes force me to run on the very outside edge of my foot as my high arch means there's very little contact area in the midfoot as it is and the support material ends up pushing my foot over even further.
switched to neutral (even some fairly minimal) shoes and although still got a bit of a dodgy knee from tightness in my itb when i ramped up my mileage I never had any real PF type pain after. running in even mildly supportive shoes now is really uncomfortable