[pct-l] Insert Life

[Jennifer Zimmerman]

Maybe 500 miles, maybe longer - depending on whether you use them for
support or cushioning and your personal tolerance.

On our hike Pants Off used a pair of orange Superfeet from Campo to Agua
Dulce, when he bought a replacement pair to put in the same shoes (he was
pretty crazy and got all the way to Tuolumne on his first pair of New
Balances).  He could definitely tell the difference in cushion when he put
the new ones in.

I had a pair of pink Superfeet I wore in my everyday shoes before we left
for the trail, so they already had some significant mileage on them when I
replaced them in Mojave.  I only swapped them out because I was going up in
shoe size and they tended to scootch around in the bigger footbed. My
feeling was that I got a greater benefit to cushioning by replacing my
shoes rather than my insoles - hiking on old insoles didn't seem to matter
much from a foot support aspect, especially when the insole used a rigid
arch support like these do.

Not everyone likes to use them but my feet always feel better with them on.

JZ

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Jennifer Zimmerman
<jenniferlzim at gmail.com>wrote:

> Maybe 500 miles, maybe longer - depending on whether you use them for
> support or cushioning and your personal tolerance.
>
> On our hike Pants Off used a pair of orange Superfeet from Campo to Agua
> Dulce, when he bought a replacement pair to put in the same shoes (he was
> pretty crazy and got all the way to Tuolumne on his first pair of New
> Balances).  He could definitely tell the difference in cushion when he put
> the new ones in.
>
> I had a pair of pink Superfeet I wore in my everyday shoes before we left
> for the trail, so they already had some significant mileage on them when I
> replaced them in Mojave.  I only swapped them out because I was going up in
> shoe size and they tended to scootch around in the bigger footbed. My
> feeling was that I got a greater benefit to cushioning by replacing my
> shoes rather than my insoles - hiking on old insoles didn't seem to matter
> much from a foot support aspect, especially when the insole used a rigid
> arch support like these do.
>
> Not everyone likes to use them but my feet always feel better with them on.
>
> JZ
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Tim Umstead <tumstead96 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at getting one of the over-the-counter shoe insert, either
>> Superfeet or Dr Scholl's (not sure what else is out there).  Any wise, I'm
>> wondering how many miles you can except from a set of inserts?
>>
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