{"id":705,"date":"2014-01-26T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=705"},"modified":"2014-01-26T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T18:31:05","slug":"a-lesson-in-buying-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Buying Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in the fall I bought my favourite shoes ever:<\/p>\n

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I loved the colour and more importantly I loved the fit of these Aisics. \u00a0i bought them on a Saturday and I ran 32km in them on the Sunday. \u00a0Knowing I had bought my dream shoes I figured I may as well pick up a second pair since the price had been lowered. \u00a0The next chance I had, I picked up another pair, different colour, but exactly the same shoes.<\/p>\n

I spent the fall running in my first pair and they never failed me, including during my first marathon. \u00a0Once in a while I grabbed the second pair to use for a short run. \u00a0Somehow the left shoe never felt quite right but I just kept putting it down to it being a little stiff and needing to be broken in. \u00a0A week ago I did my first long run in the second pair and completely destroyed my big toenail. \u00a0Now, we all know black and missing toenails are a badge of honour in running. \u00a0While the rest of the world may think it is disgusting, for runners it almost a rite of passage. \u00a0But this one just pissed me off. \u00a0I knew it was because of the shoe and not because of any great running accomplishments that I had sustained this injury. \u00a0But for the life of me I could not figure out why I was having such a problem when my other pair was so perfect.<\/p>\n

Finally I thought to compare my right shoe (which was fitting fine) and the left shoe that was causing the problem. \u00a0When I put them together for comparison I discovered that the left shoe, while labelled as the correct size, is in fact a half size smaller. \u00a0That half size combined with winter socks and going down hills, makes quite a difference in how a running shoe fits. \u00a0Needless to say, I am more than a little irritated. \u00a0I am long past the 30 day return policy, nor do I have a receipt. \u00a0Regardless, I have emailed the manager of the store and am hoping to hear back this week as to what to do next. \u00a0Right now all I know is I have learned a new lesson; don’t just check the size printed in the shoe, compare both shoes to make sure the sizes match. \u00a0Who knew???<\/p>\n

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Back in the fall I bought my favourite shoes ever: I loved the colour and more importantly I loved the fit of these Aisics. \u00a0i bought them on a Saturday and I ran 32km in them on the Sunday. \u00a0Knowing I had bought my dream shoes I figured I may as well pick up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}