Kaitlyn: Excited about Shoes!

I went today to the local running store to look at shoes. First of all, let me say how confusing finding good shoes can be. There are so many out there and finding exactly what I needed was at first, a sea. The guy helping me had me walk up and down the store, looking at my gait. It was determined that I'm a Neutral, I don't stress either side more than the other. So we started with the neutrals. Originally, because in regular shoes I am a 5.5 or 6, we started with the 6. However, although they fit, there wasn't enough room around the toes to be comfortable running shoes, so went up to the 6.5.

After figuring out size, it was then all about the arch and what hardness of the shoe I wanted. Going into this, I never knew a shoe could be hard or soft. However, yes they can be. The harder the shoe, the more support to a higher arch there is. After trying on a super soft shoe which clearly didn't work, I tried on a medium. Although comfortable, it wasn't supportive enough so hard arches was the way to go. With the hard shoes, I was decided between two different styles of Mizunos. What the guy had me do was try one shoe on one side and the other on the other side. That decided it. I knew the shoe I wanted.

What was really lucky was going into this: I didn't care what color. I just wanted to find a good fit. I ended up with my favorite color ever, a definite plus.

They are: *drum roll* Mizuno Wave Enigma (6.5 US Women's) in Violet/Aquarius