After careful research I decided upon my new shoes. Instead of just blinding buying them I made a trek to the New Balance store to get fitted. I had not been fitted for shoes in my “heavier” days back in 2005. At the time I was an 11.5 4E (4E means double wide for those of you that don’t speak New Balance). I figured I probably was a little off on the width because I had some wiggle room in my shoes.

I told the shoe “expert” at New Balance my old size but informed her I would like to be fitted. She put me in the shoe fitter thingy and looked at me with a puzzling stare. She said I was closer to a 10 than an 11 and I was a D width (regular).

We settled on a nice pair of 10.5D New Balance 1225. I then made a quick stop at The Sports Authority and picked up a 10.5D pair of everyday shoes.

I will not claim that this is the only issue that contributed to my knee soreness but I’m thinking it was a big ole contributor. I look forward to breaking the new shoes in this weekend. I will keep all of you posted. Until then behold the greatness of my new shoes……..