HMRRC Forum

Please remember this advice is free, and you get what you pay for.  Suppination, according to most sources is not typical.  I'm assuming that with orthotics, someone, presumably a podiatrist, figured you for a pronator (the more common situation).  I had the same problem of landing on the outside of my foot/heel when I wore Asics.  I wore the 2100 series and then shelled out the big bucks for the Kayano.  The pain on the outside of my right foot got so bad that I suspected I had a stress fracture.  This was even with orthotics prescribed for pronation.  One day a friendly shoe guy in a store in PA said point blank: "those are not the shoes for you" (the Kayanos).  He put me in a pair of Adidas Supernova Controls and I have been pain free ever since.  I even ditched the orthotics (they weren't custom ones).  For me, at least, the Asics somehow seemed to throw my foot into a outward motion.  The Adidas work for me, they are supportive, yet cushioned and responsive (also cheaper).  Now, all this having been said.  No one can prescribe shoes over the internet.  Furthermore, what worked for me may not work for you.  However, I suspect you simply need a more supportive shoe.  Try to get to a good running shoe store (not one of the chains like Dick's).  But, give the Supernova Control a look, it's more rigid through the midfoot than the 2100 and I think that sounds like what you need.  Good luck

I hope I helped some (keep in mind my caveat about free advice).  However, I don't want to give you the idea that my experience will be yours.  I was prescribed an orthotic, but it wasn't custom molded from my foot.  In the long run, I think the orthotic I was prescribed was needed to make up for what the shoe didn't do.  In my case the right shoe alleviated the problem.  If you need orhtotics, you need orthotics.  I'd hate for you to think that some shoe advice is automatically going to have you throwing away your orthotics.  Once again, I was lucky.  My suggestion is to try on as many brands as possible.  I would not have even looked at Adidas were they not suggested to me.  By that token I have never run in Reeboks or Mizunos either.  The only store I know of is in Absolute Fitness on route 9 in Latham.  They don't carry Adidas, but they have Nike, Brooks, New Balance, and Asics.  They can do a good job of fitting you.  Good Luck.