Another loud vote for Wright socks - brilliant, just a bitter harder to get hold of in the UK! (from someone who would never have believed he could get passionate about a sock brand.)
For a heavyweight (like me) neutral - highly recommend Mizuno Wave Creation. Terrific cushioning (not too firm or too spongy) in both heel and forefoot.
Like the proverbial unexpected turd in a glass of milk my rejection letter turned up this morning.
This is the fourth year in a row I've been rejected (although I have run it 7 times before)
I wonder - does the ballot have anything to do with address? My previous streak of acceptances all occurred when I lived in Malvern, and rejections since I moved to Cheshire / Shropshire
I've recently gone through a very thorough bio-mechanical assessment with a podiatrist who advertises in RW - and is an ex-GB international middle distance runner.
I've been precribed orthotics (and picked them up last night) to help deal with a leg-length difference and over-pronation.
I asked him about neutral vs. motion control shoes - and his view was if you need motion control without orthotics then you need motion control with orthotics - otherwise it is like using a corrective stable base on an unstable surface such as sand.
Logically this sounded sensible. I tried the orhthotics out walking in two different pairs of running shoes - a stability shoe (Saucony Grid Hurricane) and a neutral shoe (Mizuno Wave Creation). The control was markedly better in the former, where the excessive rotation in my right foot was eliminated - which seems to bear out what he was saying (for me at least).
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