[at-l] Boots & bony ankles

[sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

--- Lilla Thompson <lthompson@hollins.edu> wrote:
> I'm wearing my hiking books today as we have snow underfoot,
> and so have been reminded of a problem I get off and on
> wearing these things (Vasque litehikers or somesuch).  I
> sometimes (not always, but today) get really sore where
> anklebone meets boot.  Sometimes it's one, sometimes the other
> foot; sometimes both.  Re-lacing/re-adjusting sox usually
> makes no difference.  I don't get raw spots or blisters--it
> feels like bone bruising. 

### This sounds like an unfortunate irritation of the local
tendons -- unfortunate because of how yours just happen to be
situated vis-a-vis the internal padding/pressure points of the
boots. I once had a pair of running shoes that, simply from the
ankle closure, produced a golfball of swelling atop the "front"
of my ankle. Felt like the slowest bee sting in the world. Lost
the shoes, lost the problem.

--> I'd try another pair of shoes, or soak these puppies and
wear/walk 'em dry, and see if theres' not a bit of break-in left
that you might harvest to your benefit.

Swelltoe

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