Last winter when I decided that I was going to pick up running I decided to get a nice pair of running shoes. I looked at all the different type of shoes that the store that I work at had, but didn't really know any difference between them since I didn't sell in the shoe department. Being so new to running I didn't really even know that there was a big difference between a support shoe, and neutral shoe or a control shoe. The biggest problem that I had was that I didn't even know what to ask someone. So I walked around looking at the walls of shoes that we have and looked for all the colors that I thought were cool. Once I found a selection of colors that I was interested in I went into the back and started trying some of the shoes on and ended up getting the Mizuno Wave Inspire 6 in a size 11.
I was discussing earlier this summer with some of the shoe experts where I work and they said that the Mizuno Wave Inspire 6 was a shoe designed for someone who slightly over pronated. This made me wonder what I was, so we looked at the shoes that I had been using for walking around and found out that I had a fairly neutral stride meaning that I should have a neutral shoe instead of a correcting shoe.
When I first got the shoes I hadn't ran more then a mile at a time but wanted to get into shape and possibly try triathlons. I looked up some training methods online and started running for 20 minutes at a 5.5 mile per hour pace, but being a cyclist I found that these shorter distances were fairly easy and by the end of the month I was running 6 miles in an hour. I plateaued at this for a which and ran 6 miles at a 6 mile per hour pace for about a week and a half when my knee started to hurt after a run. I stopped running until it stopped hurting and decided to try to run again. I was on the treadmill for about 10 minutes before I couldn't run anymore and when I got off I could hardly walk. I looked up on the internet and self diagnosed it as runners knee and stopped running for about 8 months. Now that I am starting to run again, I strapped on my shoes and took off thinking to myself that I was going to build a base before I increased my time spent running up. The bad part is that after three days off running in a week my knees started to hurt again. Talking to some people at work I decided to get a new pair of shoes that were a neutral shoe and all my knee pains have went away.
The Mizuno Wave Inspire 6 shoes have had great reviews and I know a lot of people at work who love them. The reviews that I have found online have people who love them and then people like me who have knee pain when running in them. The biggest downfall for me was that I had ran over 50 miles on the shoes before that pain started so its hard to tell in the store if they will work for you. The one thing that I can say about the shoes is that they last very well, I've put about 69 miles on the shoes (55 being on a treadmill and the rest on concrete) and they show very little sign of wear and tear. The other thing that I noticed when I put the shoes on is that it feels like the shoes try to force my feet to bank out so I'm striking the outside of my foot more then the rest. All in all I believe that if you need a shoe to help with over pronating then these shoes could be the next pair for you, otherwise Mizuno has a control line and a neutral line for the rest of us.
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