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@hugo7
I'm in need of an Internet diagnosis...
The buckle section on my left daily commuting shoe fell off a while back and I've just been riding without it. Finding a replacement was a hassle and I couldn't be bother to spend the £s when I figured I'd replace them at some point.
I've got pains in the tendons running along the top of my foot. It comes and goes but now seems fairly consistently bad. It's far from crippling but this morning it was enough to make me not want to ride on it.
Could the buckle and the pain be correlated? My logic is that without the upper support keeping my heal in the tendons along the top need to work to keep my heal in. Commuting on a fixed gear means there's more stop and start, therefore more pressure. Further I leave my left permanently clipped in so its often the one receiving the initial pressure away from the lights.
Does that all seem plausible or not ?
Cheers.