And I'm wondering if wearing barefoot shoes on a day-to-day basis has let my toes spread enough that I need to get bigger climbing shoes. Tight, sure, uncomfortable, sure, but my toes were uncomfortable to the point of feeling bruised/tingly after 45 min which doesn't seem quite right.
I definitely find that if I'm off for a month or more, my sense of what's "tight" in shoes re-sets and my previously-comfortable climbing shoes feel painfully tight, to the point where I'd imagine they'd shrunk if I didn't know that couldn't be the case. So it could just be that.
But I've been wearing barefoot shoes for years anyway (when not cramming my toes into tiny climbing shoes ...), so it's possible that any foot change in response to them took place long ago.
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And I'm wondering if wearing barefoot shoes on a day-to-day basis has let my toes spread enough that I need to get bigger climbing shoes. Tight, sure, uncomfortable, sure, but my toes were uncomfortable to the point of feeling bruised/tingly after 45 min which doesn't seem quite right.
I definitely find that if I'm off for a month or more, my sense of what's "tight" in shoes re-sets and my previously-comfortable climbing shoes feel painfully tight, to the point where I'd imagine they'd shrunk if I didn't know that couldn't be the case. So it could just be that.
But I've been wearing barefoot shoes for years anyway (when not cramming my toes into tiny climbing shoes ...), so it's possible that any foot change in response to them took place long ago.