Shoe Crisis

As I mentioned in my last update, my Feiyues are really worn down. Besides my feiyues I do have a pair of Feelmax Fivefingers, but my Achilles tendons are also really sore so I needed a new pair of sneaker. Another reason for buying sneakers is that I'm going for a promenade of 100 km so I needed something that could absorb the impact and also support my ankle. And I'm rather sure that my feet would be completely dead without proper shoes.  So there was no other choice than to head to the stores.

The first store didn't have anything satisfying enough, only those same generic white sneakers with hard plastic in the middle. But the second one looked a whole lot better. As I mentioned before; I didn' wan't any shoes with that hard plastic in the middle, because you do not want to land with it on a wet rail. I also didn't want anything white, because I train in the most suspicious places, so they would be brown/grayish right after the first use. I was first struck by the variety of shoes, but with these requirements I was able to cut off most off the sneakers available.

One of the first shoes I encountered was this monster. It is ment for offtrack running and it looked really durable, and even the price wasn't that bad. But for some reason I didn't even try these on, perhaps they looked a bit too aggressive for me. I also haven't had any experience with brooks, and I wanted to make a sure choice.

  

After some searching and investigation I managed to find the right pair of sneakers for me: Nike lunarglide+ and even the price was reasonable: 59,90€. They're black and I really like the fact that they actually do not look like sneakers at all. The only downside is that the cushion is a bit to thick as with Nike shoes usually.

The next step was to test run them but before it, I walked by a gallery wh

ich had an exhibition of vintage sport shoes made by the Finnish company Karhu. I took a lot of pictures because it showed quite well how shoes used for sports have changed during the past decades. So here's a little montage for you:

 

I liked especially these shoes, its colors shape and the texture of the sole. My only doubt is that the sole wouldn't last numerous turn vaults and wall runs

The test run with my new pair of sneakers went quite well, it was so much easier than with my Feiyues, because you do not ave to pay so much concentration on your legs when you land, and you do not have to watch from how high you are landing. I believe that I will use these shoes during my InterRail and during the promenade, but I do believe that I will also in the future prefer bear feet/Feiyues over sneakers. Because with sneakers I do not have any contact with the ground although it is in my opinion quite good to have a pair of spare sneaker. For instance at the moment I have a wound on my heel, so it is in my opinion important to give it time to heal and use shoes which give enough protection, and which are clean enough (my both pair of Feiyues are so dirty from the inside that I do not fancy to use socks with them). 

I'm already leaving for my InterRail the 28th day, so from then on I try to find a spot in every city we stay and share it with you.