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How to choose shoes

You’ve been running for a while – or you're a newbie – and it’s time for new shoes.

You’ve done your homework – asked your running partner’s advice, googled, chatted around the braai. Now it’s time to buy the actual shoes. What do you need to consider?

This is probably one of the most challenging issues that shoe experts need to address on a regular basis. There are so many driving forces influencing peoples' decisions. Some of them are vitally important to the biomechanics of the individual in specific circumstances, and some have no real effect at all, but to the person buying the shoes

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