[pct-l] Foot size change

[m.karon at comcast.net (Marshall Karon)]

But, did your shoe size change during your training period?

Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@comcast.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Longton" <plongton@pacbell.net>
To: <darkbodhi@yahoo.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 4:31 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Foot size change


> Shane wrote "A couple of people now have mentioned that their
> feet did not change or barely changed during the
> thru-hike.  Now I'm curious, how many of those
> who had no change in their feet were active long
> distance hikers before the PCT?  How many whose
> feet did change were active long distance hikers?"
>
> I was one whose shoe size did not change during my 2004 thru-hike of the 
> PCT. That was my first long-distance hike. In the months (and years) 
> before the beginning of the hike I ran 30 to 40 miles a week and usually 
> had a dayhike of 12 - 20 miles on the weekend. Although the closer the day 
> came to start the hike the less time I had to run or hike and so the 
> distance tapered off. My hiking partner who shared the same pre-thru-hike 
> runs and dayhikes did not experience a shoe size change during the 
> thru-hike either. Buzz
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