Thursday, July 3, 2008

Foot Falling Asleep while Running

I have always had a problem with this. In general I have poor circulation and I thought this might be the problem. When I got my new shoes we asked them about this and they said that new shoes will help and that I will want to keep my shoelaces loose. They laced up my new shoes and tied them how they should be tied. To me it was hard to get use to having my laces so loose, but I like it now. The problem was that my foot was still falling asleep. I read online that some people have a higher bone in their foot that rubs the top of their shoes. I guess this was my problem. I changed the way I laced up my right shoe, to make sure that the laces do not go across that bone on my foot. The last 2 workouts my foot has not fallen asleep. Yeah! I think I got it figured out.
Picture: My left shoe (shoe on the right), is laced the way the girl at the running store laced them. It might be hard to tell but on my right shoe (shoe on the left), I removed the bottom criss-cross of the laces. This removed the pressure on the bone on the top of my foot.

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