Exactly why I suggest trying them on in decent outdoor shops instead of taking advice about brands from strangers on the internet.
Exactly right. You cannot recommend someone a particular shoe based on personal experience - what suits one person's feet will not suit someone else's. I know from experience the damage an ill-fitting pair of shoes can do so to recommend a particular brand is - with respect to those who have - a tad irresponsible.
The best advice is for the OP to go to a specialist shop - so not Sports Direct or Decathlon - who will be able to look at his/her feet and make a proper judgement as to what will suit best. Good ones will allow you to take them home and walk around the house or even on a treadmill for a few miles to make sure they fit correctly.
How many steps per day have you been doing? Steps are a better measurement, at least at the beginning, because we all have different sized legs. A four-mile walk may be more relative exercise for a 5' 2" person than someone 6' 4", who takes fewer steps!
Im 5ft 7" and do have long legs, so my stride is long. When I do my walks it shoots up to 12,000 steps a day.
On a normal day its hardly anything as I have a desk job (bad I know) hence me doing quite a lot of walking
Weekends, I tend to me horses so there is a lot of walking there too, around the farm
Expensive, but put it this way, I was passed on a pair of these walking boots by my dad when I was a teenager and they are still as good as new to this day, at least 35 years later, despite being worn quite a lot.
I doubt there is much about walking boots and footwear that the Swiss (.ch domain) don't know about.
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Exactly right. You cannot recommend someone a particular shoe based on personal experience - what suits one person's feet will not suit someone else's. I know from experience the damage an ill-fitting pair of shoes can do so to recommend a particular brand is - with respect to those who have - a tad irresponsible.
The best advice is for the OP to go to a specialist shop - so not Sports Direct or Decathlon - who will be able to look at his/her feet and make a proper judgement as to what will suit best. Good ones will allow you to take them home and walk around the house or even on a treadmill for a few miles to make sure they fit correctly.
Im 5ft 7" and do have long legs, so my stride is long. When I do my walks it shoots up to 12,000 steps a day.
On a normal day its hardly anything as I have a desk job (bad I know) hence me doing quite a lot of walking
Weekends, I tend to me horses so there is a lot of walking there too, around the farm
http://www.mammut.ch/en/productOverview/products_footwear_herren_ch/Men%27s-Footwear.html
Expensive, but put it this way, I was passed on a pair of these walking boots by my dad when I was a teenager and they are still as good as new to this day, at least 35 years later, despite being worn quite a lot.
I doubt there is much about walking boots and footwear that the Swiss (.ch domain) don't know about.
Raichle now known as Mammut.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mammut+boots&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Amammut+boots
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Raichle+&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ARaichle+
But, yeah, it depends on how much you're going to use these in the future.
Makes like Karrimor and Berghaus are usually pretty safe bets.