Breaking it the custom boots: 2nd week

 Monday: 

- the heel pain was actually a little better, still unbearable, but I think I can hope it will go away as the heel cup will relax.

- the toe blister starts to heal.

- the boots start to close in and hug my foot so I felt more control and it got more clear how I want the blade. I'll explain my process of blade aligning for my pronation, in detail, in a separate post.

- the ankle still needs softening, because if you remember I ended up not heat molding for fear of not collapsing the boot.

- the heel still lifts up.

Wednesday:

- kind of same pain in the heel. It's maybe a little better? May also be wishful thinking.

- the ankle starts softening and I'm getting more control. I said I will explain how I adjust the blade and I'll just say that it is a long process involving wedges under the blade and I fell I can do it only after the boot starts to break in. I feel I'm almost there.

- my worry is the heel lifting after each push, when I point the toes. I don't know how that will affect my skating when I will be able to go at my full speed and quickens. For now it is a feeling extremely annoying, like I would wear flip flops and they would be too big and they would slide. This heel lifting supposedly happens because my surefeet inserts have high heel and they lift my heel out of the heel pocket. Another mistake in the design of the boots... especially because the "custom" insoles they did for me are even higher.

- to add to this worry is the fact that I measured the outside heel. It is as my last boots, but the rest of the sole is thicker, as I added cork... so the proportion is off, now the heel is lower than on my previous boots. If you don't remember from my past posts, I will remind you, when I first got the boots the heel was higher. 

I planned to go skating once more this week, but all this physical pain and the emotional pain of figuring out the boots process it is so draining, I just couldn't drag myself....