Posts by lembas_lover

If u figure the cost of all the shoes you are bying that tear, they will probably equal the cost of a REALLY GREAT pair of running shoes that fit your foot correctly and will also help prevent injury.  Just my opinion, good luck.

Eh, not really.  I would still need to replace them every 6 months or so based on how much I run, and this current pair of shoes has lasted about 4 without tearing, so at best I would be breaking even.  I did check the wear pattern, and there may be a very slight amount of extra wear on the outside. 

Unfortunately there are really no great foot ware (let alone running shoe) stores within a couple hundred miles, so I'm probably not going to be getting the problem professionally "diagnosed" any time soon.

I'll join the choir of people glad to hear that you are thinking of adoption.  My husband and I got our first dog together (his first dog ever) in September of 07.  I had grown up with a golden that I had begged for until I was 7 years old.  She was a wonderful dog that we raised from puppyhood who died about 2 years before my husband and I got our dog. 

Due to my experience with my golden, that was originally what I had in mind when we went to the shelter.  We thought we wanted a larger dog because that's all I had ever known.  The day we visited the shelter a lot of their dogs happened to be out at local Petsmarts where they were doing on site adoptions, so when we didn't find a perfect fit at the shelter we went to the Petsmart to have a look, and met our Pratchett there.  She was a scrawny, sick, dirty 8 month old terrier mix and we completely fell in love. 

Now that we've had her for almost a year and a half I can't imagine having gotten any other dog, so I guess the moral of my story is that you should be aware that in going through the adoption process you may end up with a completely different kind of dog than you would have thought you'd want.  When you go to a shelter I think the best thing to look for is a good personality match. 

Recently my parents got a black lab puppy and the hell they've gone through with her taught my husband and I just how lucky we were to have chanced into a dog that was mostly house trained and extremely well mannered from the start. As far as bonding, it mostly just happens.  The first night we brought Pratchett home she curled up at the head of our bed and fell asleep.  The next morning she woke up and just...went crazy, in a good way.  It was like she was just so excited and happy that she had woken up and she was still with us that she couldn't contain herself.  Lmao, and it still makes me tear up to think about it!

Ask as many questions as you can of the shelter staff, but don't let them pressure you into a specific dog if it doesn't feel perfect.  We had one volunteer try to get us to take home a dalmation mix "just to see how it fit" even though we were obviously unsure about it, which comes up as a red flag thinking back on it.

I could literally go on for days, so I'll leave it at that.  Good luck finding your dog!

Not a bad idea, but the only way I could see that being the problem is if the friction of my heel rubbing across the lining when I put them on is making the holes, but hell, isn't that what they're designed for?  I'm pretty sure at this point that either it's a weight distribution problem, as someone above mentioned, or that I'm wearing my shoes a half size too big and my the back of my foot is sliding around too much as I jog.  I'm going to try to find the most specialized place that I can where I live and see if anyone there can give me any insights.  I'll keep that in mind with my new pair of shoes, though!

Unfortunately the holes are being created higher on the shoe than most orthotics that I've seen cover (Maybe I should have described it as the back of my foot rather than my heel?).  Wearing thicker socks couldn't hurt, though.  Thanks!

iridescent_identity,

Try swimming!  My mom swam for exercise when she was pregnant with me and loved it.  It's great full body exercise and you can even leave out arms/legs alternately if you're trying to tone one particular area

@lsam31-

I have the same question.  I'm currently eating 1600/day, but I calculated my BMR on several sites and they all said I was in the 1900 range...that seems like a lot to me!  I categorize myself as light activity because I only sit still for 30 minute increments during my work day.  I log my exercise separately. 

Haha, over 3,000 for me.  I wish...