Help - need to find a running shoe and am completely lost

bearpanther
Tue, 12 May 2015 16:47:55 +0000

Just a personal experience on the advice earlier on the thread to go online and buy last years version for cheaper if you like the ones you bought in the store:

I wear New Balance 1080s. Have for years, starting with v2. Not much significant change from v2 to v3, they still worked great for me.

Then they came out with v4. Big changes, especially in the amount of forefoot cushioning (they also changed the last). They were awful for me and I hated them. $$ down the drain because I didn’t try them on, just assumed they would work like the previous models and ordered online.

I have since ordered up as many pairs of the v3 as I can find, which is great for me as they are much cheaper now! But never again will I assume that a new version of the same model will work without trying it on first.