The shoes pictured before this post were this year's shoes. All of the shoes were of excellent quality, there were no breakdowns in the materials of the shoes and I would happily recommend them to anyone if they fit their foot correctly. The quality in the Books shoes is so good that the very first pair that I bought in January of '03, I still wear today as my every day shoes (Brooks Beast).
First on the list are the Mizuno Alchemy 3: Good shoe that got me through my ankle problems, there's a lot of arch in these shoes. Some sites call them Stability shoes and others call them Motion control. I liked the arch support in them but they seemed a little loose in the heal for me.
Total miles: 345
Second on the list are the Brooks Addiction 6: These shoes I got in May, 6 weeks before Eagleman. I got blisters on the pads of my feet when they were new and I debated on using them for Eagleman but after they performed well at Seahorse I decided to use them. In July I put a Spenco insole in them and that made them better. It took up the extra room in the shoe. In August, after I scrubbed the shoes down to clean them, they got a curve in the sole that worked very well for me, I'm not sure how it happened, but it made a big difference in my running, for the better. I wound up running all of my races in these shoes as well as IMFL.
Total miles: 473
The next pair of shoes are also Brooks Addiction 6: These shoes did not agree with my feet at all. I figured that the last pair worked so well that a new pair for IMFL would be the right thing to do...NOT!!! I bought these in early september hoping to break them in for the big race but they just weren't the same. When I ran in them I got blisters on my arches, when I put the Spenco insoles in them my heal slipped so bad that I blistered again. I tried washing them and bending them but nothing worked. I went back to the old pair to finish the season, they felt so nice.
Total miles: 30
Now the new shoes, Asics 1090. I've thrown away most things I have read about what kind of shoe I need and found a pair that I really like. I went to Sports Authority because I didn't want to listen to a salesmen tell me what I needed and talk me out of the shoe I want. The shoes on my list were all Asics models, they were: GT-2090, Cumulus, Nimbus, DS Trainer, Legato and the 1090. I figured that the 2090's were the way to go but tried on most of the others. The only one that I didn't try was the DS trainers mainly because they didn't stock them. In the end it came down to the 2090 and 1090 and I chose the 1090 because of the curve in the sole and the fact that they were so comfortable. This is an experiment with a different shoe and I'll keep posting on how they are doing. Time will tell if the shoe fits :)
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