Running Survey - help

[Doctoroncall]

A friend’s wife is a Musculoskeletal (MSK) podiatrist and is carrying out research at Staffordshire university studying to determine which factors influence a runner to choose and purchase a running trainer. In order to achieve this, they would like your help to understand what encourages a runner to seek advice (if they do), when choose a running trainer and what deems to be important to them when purchasing a new trainer or changing their current running shoes:

 

Please find the link below, which will take you to a short questionnaire (by Staffordshire university) set by a MSK Podiatrist specialist.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=8nivV33IZkS3u2tsyZ7RJLGijx3eDvhJkobsNi_GSqlUOFpFUlpOSDdYV0M1WERBQUVTREVJUVBCTi4u

 

I appreciate it if you could take couple of minutes completing the questionnaire and feel free to forward it to other runners from your circle of friends and/or clubs.

 

At the end of the study, the outcome of the research can be shared with interested parties.

[Redbul]

Done! Hope the findings are useful!

[Manuel]

Done. There's a chap who owns a running shop near me, sells trainers and seems to give good advice. Trainers may cost £100 from him though. So, being a cheapskate, I tend to go £35 Adidas ones instead that fit well and are comfortable. I only do 2 miles at a time and they seem ok for that.

[Doctoroncall]

Thanks to everyone that has completed the survey.

 

Manuel - another option is after finding the shoe that fits is to buy online. But it’s always nice to support the guy that helped.

 

Much depends on how much running you do and if there are any physical conditions which need managing.

 

I only run a few times a week as I commute by bike but need shoes to correct pronation otherwise I would get pain in the ankle or plantar fasciitis would flare up so it important to get a shoe that fits or combined with insoles.

[OldNick]

 

Manuel - another option is after finding the shoe that fits is to buy online. But it’s always nice to support the guy that helped.

So when by using people to then go off and buy on the internet so then they have to close their business, where do you go for that advice in future? Modern society, it is such a shame that people even consider to do so. Once its gone we will miss these places.

[Redbul]

Done. There's a chap who owns a running shop near me, sells trainers and seems to give good advice. Trainers may cost £100 from him though. So, being a cheapskate, I tend to go £35 Adidas ones instead that fit well and are comfortable. I only do 2 miles at a time and they seem ok for that.

 

If you're only doing 2 miles at a time then cheaper trainers may be ok but if you're out doing long, regular miles you may get injured using cheaper trainers. But people in these shops know their stuff and their advice is valuable and they should be supported; they can pick up pronation/supination issues or other musculo skeletal problems that you weren't previously aware of and by so doing advise you to get the appropriate treatment or suggest other orthotics or trainers depending on the severity.