The Running Shoe Advice You Were Given Probably Is Not Evidence Based
Almost every runner has been through some version of this. You go to a running store. Somebody watches you walk or run on a treadmill, looks at your ankles, and announces that you overpronate. You are handed a stability shoe, or a motion control shoe, and told this is the category you belong in. It feels scientific. There is a screen, there is terminology, and there is a clear recommendation. The research behind it is considerably thinner than the confidence of the advice suggests.
