Symptoms Update - New Shoes!

Just a brief post today.

I have just started wearing another new pair of shoes. This means that the ones I got to replace the previous set have only lasted a few months.

The pleasing aspect is that the wear pattern has returned to normal, which suggests that the complete failure of the previous pair was to do with moving house and the extra stresses resulting from that. There is no sign of wear on the tops of the shoes.

The disappointing aspect is that these have lasted for 4-5 months which makes them my quickest pair to date. However, I am also on the cusp of starting to use walking poles, I have new insoles on order, and my stretches are changing, which will be the subject of more blog posts soon! I wonder if any of these will help change the rate of wear of my shoes.

I was briefly reading my recent shoe replacement posts, and I noted that I had switched type at the end of 2023 because of price. This time I have taken the bullet and gone back to Karrimor shoes, and I was lucky to find a reasonable price for these on purchase. My new shoes are Karrimor Mount, which are low walking shoes. 

Taking the start point of these new shoes as the beginning of November, this adds to the dataset, showing the number of months between new shoes decreasing each time.

Shoe Date	Months
Sep-14
Apr-17	31
Nov-18	19
May-20	18
Oct-21	17
Dec-22	14
Nov-23	11
Jun-24	7
Nov-24	5