Your hiking boots mid-sole is designed to provide you with additional support. This synthetic material can lose its effectiveness over time.
How can you tell your boots have lost their support?
You can carry out a simple test called a “press check” and see how much support there is in your mid-sole.
Push upward on the bottom of your hiking boot as a way to form pressure against the mid-sole. When you do this, your mid-sole should form a bunch of very small creases. This indicates your boots still have cushion. If your boots do not have compression lines, or only have a few rigid ones, it is very likely your mid-sole support is decreasing.
While this test might be more effective on soft mid-soled speed hiking shoes, it is still applicable to the majority of hiking boots.
A boot with poor cushioning and support will increase the likelihood of experiencing sore joints and muscular aches. For this reason, a overused mid-sole is a perfect reason to get a new pair of boots.
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