Makes perfect sense to me, I'm very bought into wearing shoes for riding that have the same profile as shoes you wear for the rest of your life. One piece of thought-food I was given is that since I'm going in the woods and doing my activity in flat shoes I should be wearing flat shoes in my life.
I was wearing Blundstones most of the year as my daily drivers which have a raised heel which in turn trained my Achilles into a shorter static position. Then I'm going hike-a-biking in the woods wearing shoes with no heel-raise and I've already preloaded the tendons by a bit even before I stepped back and one ruptured.
Not saying at all that the discrepancy in heel height day-to-day versus riding caused my injury. But I can certainly see how training myself over many years wearing Blundstone boots but riding in flat shoes could be a contributing factor.
Aug. 31, 2022, 8:47 a.m. - Andrew Major
Makes perfect sense to me, I'm very bought into wearing shoes for riding that have the same profile as shoes you wear for the rest of your life. One piece of thought-food I was given is that since I'm going in the woods and doing my activity in flat shoes I should be wearing flat shoes in my life. I was wearing Blundstones most of the year as my daily drivers which have a raised heel which in turn trained my Achilles into a shorter static position. Then I'm going hike-a-biking in the woods wearing shoes with no heel-raise and I've already preloaded the tendons by a bit even before I stepped back and one ruptured. Not saying at all that the discrepancy in heel height day-to-day versus riding caused my injury. But I can certainly see how training myself over many years wearing Blundstone boots but riding in flat shoes could be a contributing factor.