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[QUOTE="brawblether, post: 81327, member: 12867"] I've read a lot of the threads here about trainers v boots, socks, airing your feet, etc etc and it's been great. I was convinced I'd go in trail shoes (I'm Australian btw, so for anyone who doesn't know these are basically trainers for walking) but decided to buy boots to see how I went in them training wise. I've six months before I leave (going in June/July, 700kms, first time I've ever done anything like this) and so I've a little time up my sleeve to test things out...but I don't have an infinite bank account. I can't tell you how much I've already spent on socks and shoes. So...I've bought a pair of uni-sex boots (the light weight and female ones didn't fit my wide foot) which I suspect are too large but before I ditch them and look for another pair I want to really try and make these work. The reason I went with them so large is that I know my feet swell and the size down fit too snugly in the shop. Now when I walk uphill these ones are fine, it's when I'm on the flat and going downhill that my foot just slips in them and my toes smash into the front. I've tried lacing them differently, that just hurts my ankles...does anyone have any other suggestions? I think the socks I'm currently wearing aren't helping and will change to thicker and hopefully less slippery but otherwise i'm not sure of what to do. (NB I haven't walked longer than an hour in them as I'm still breaking them in but today I did two x 20mins walks and wouldn't want to have gone much further as I was slipping really badly and it was affecting my gait...so I haven't walked in them with swollen feet). [/QUOTE]
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