Newton Shoes

[Wahine]

If you tend to pronate, be careful. After running in these shoes, I had a terrible case of achilles tendonitis that took about 6 weeks to go away (doctor visits, PT, anti-inflamm). I don't blame the shoes entirely--I think the main culprit was wearing Nike Free shoes for walking & general wear.

The idea behind the Newton shoes is to force you into a forefoot strike. Biomechanically this allows more of your muscular output to go into moving forward. The other side of that is they do require more effort from the calf. This is good if you want to run faster, not good if you're prone to achilles tendon problems.

I plan on using them for short track workouts only initially.

ETA: I haven't used them yet. I'm waiting for some better weather to do an interval workout at the track.