Tom_hampton wrote:
This is me! I've been running in cheap Walmart socks exactly because the elastic sucks. Just like having a cloth bag around my foot. Would love a more technical material sock, if it didn't compress. Smart wool feels so comfy for about 5 minutes. Then the aching starts. So... The balega is not tight?
Nope. Not tight at all, at least for me. I'm a 12.5 E (US for 'wide') No more than a regular Kohl's white 'sock' my wife buys me in mega packs for work (I own and work in a factory). There's no compressiveness to them that I can see. I love them. Nothing better than wearing them the first time and 2-3 times after that. Feels like little comfy pillows. By the 3-4th time, they revert to a completely inert interaction with my feet. Nothing positive like the first few times, but zero negative. I always feel like my feet will kind of "swim around" in them when I first put my shoes on, but they don't.
Nike and UnderArmor? It's like a competition to see who can squeeze your feet the tightest. And they seem put that compression right where my neuroma issues crop up.