For the Love of my Feet

My feet have been super tender lately, in my arches, on the top, at my toes, and I could figure out what was really wrong, until one night when I took off my tennis shoes and investigated them.  Come to find out I had almost worn through each of my insoles, there were many worn or completely missing tread pads on the bottom of my shoe, and the back of my shoe now looked like an squished marshmallow rather than a new one.  All of these indicators pointed to me buying new shoes!
But I had just bought new ones about a year ago, why did I need new ones already?  The shoes that I had the year before (exactly the same brand an style) and had trained for my triathlon in had never looked like this and I had them for over a year....oh well, I guess.
So I made my way one night to Road Runner Sports in the Kent Station and got outfitted again. New custom made insoles ($80) and shoes (same brand and style-$98). 

The insoles fit great, but I wasn't so sure about the shoe as we, the store clerk and I, decided to go with a 9W, which my foot is wide, instead of a regular 9, which I had been wearing the past year, and I wasn't so sure about the color.  But I'm a VIP at the store, which means I have 90 days to bring back anything I buy there, no questions asked, so I wasn't too worried.  I also had a race coming up, so I thought I would try them out and if I didn't like them, then I would take them back and get new ones.
Well, it's been a week and the insoles are now driving me nuts.  After fitting well during the fitting, they have been hurting my arches when I'm just standing in them, as well as when I'm running in them and I could never get my shoes to be tight enough as not to rub on the bottom of my feet, so back I went to return them.  I got new remolded insoles, which I will try out later today and then ordered the shoes I wanted in a non-wide size and better colors,

but that meant I walked out of the store with only socks as my shoes had to be ordered online.