Finding The Right Shoe

MRC offers the most advanced shoe fitting service. We’ll spare you the marketing mumbo-jumbo and help you find the right shoe for you – the shoe you find to be most comfortable that also works for your biomechanics, fits you well, and meets your running goals and budget. What’s right for you will likely be different than what is right for your friends, family or running partner. It may even be different from when you first started running. We take the mystery out of the process, and can even make our best guess on what shoe elements might help to aleviate certain common injuries. (Skip to our Foot Problems section if you want to read up.)

Video analysis is the core of our shoe fit process. Our well-trained staff uses high-speed video to capture and analyze the fraction of a second during the gait process when your biomechanics make you most vulnerable to the most common types of injury. You won’t have to trust us – you’ll see for yourself what your feet are doing, and the changes as you try different types of shoes.

During an average year, 65 per cent of regular runners and sportspeople suffer with an injury (by definition, an 'injury' is a physical problem severe enough to force a reduction in training).

One running injury occurs for about every 100 hours of running, and runners miss about 5-10 per cent of their workouts due to injury ('Incidence and Severity of Injury Following Aerobic Training Programs Emphasising Running, Racewalking, or Step Aerobics,' Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, vol. 25(5).

Whether it’s your first pair of “real running shoes”, your favorite style is updating, or you’re considering moving to a minimalist shoe, we’ll watch you run in every pair you try on, eliminating the worry about whether shoes are going to work for you.