And so, I thought I would have never gone "back" to those times...times of pains and tightly fit boots.
Sunday I "had to" purchase a new race boot. The choice fell on the Dalbello DRS WC (witdh @93mm)
Ha because after years of skiing "comfortably" in boots that were of the exact street shoes size (last two pair of ski boots I use are both Tecnica, the in-resort daily drive is a [email protected].110 and the freeride one a ZeroG Guide Pro, both 27,5) I have come to need a more precise boot to drive the skis, if I want to pass the Eurotest, before getting too old.
Interstingly enough I started off at the shop with a 27,0 sized one, when I tried it this summer hte fit was snug enough without causing any particular pain nor pressure point. On Sunday though, already the liner alone felt a bit too wide...too much room around the heel, even after the liners and the feet were inserted in the boots, so I went down...another half size to a 26,5 boot.
And after one hour of dry testing it pulled the trigger for it. F.I. is "only" 110, but
a) I've had enough of the "I got it stiffer than yours" attitude highly favoured here and decided that 110 was good (stiff) enough. b) I'm old enough and 110 should do the job anyway.
Having had no possibility to ski in it,yet, it's the second day that I wear it at home in the evening.
After half an hour the pain is...noticeable, toes are compressed (too much for my liking) and I feel some pressure point on the side of my left foot (interestingly enough, the narrower of the two) and on the external portion of the calf of the right one (a pain point that made me ditch the Dalbello Scorpion 130 I had purchased some years ago in favour of the Tecnica 9.8).
After one hour I have to take them off, feet are numb and don't regain their natural shape for some minutes after extracting them from the boots.
As agreed with the boot fitter, the boot-fitting process has just barely begun after all, I will need to go see them after actually having skied in the boots for at least a couple of times. But the two evenings of "on the sofa skiing" sessions so far have made me think that I will need a bit more room for the toes, a punch on the external side of the left boot , a punch on the external calf of the right one and a custom footbed. To begin with. Actual, on-the-snow-skiing will tell more.
Sunday I "had to" purchase a new race boot. The choice fell on the Dalbello DRS WC (witdh @93mm)
Ha because after years of skiing "comfortably" in boots that were of the exact street shoes size (last two pair of ski boots I use are both Tecnica, the in-resort daily drive is a [email protected].110 and the freeride one a ZeroG Guide Pro, both 27,5) I have come to need a more precise boot to drive the skis, if I want to pass the Eurotest, before getting too old.
Interstingly enough I started off at the shop with a 27,0 sized one, when I tried it this summer hte fit was snug enough without causing any particular pain nor pressure point. On Sunday though, already the liner alone felt a bit too wide...too much room around the heel, even after the liners and the feet were inserted in the boots, so I went down...another half size to a 26,5 boot.
And after one hour of dry testing it pulled the trigger for it. F.I. is "only" 110, but
a) I've had enough of the "I got it stiffer than yours" attitude highly favoured here and decided that 110 was good (stiff) enough. b) I'm old enough and 110 should do the job anyway.
Having had no possibility to ski in it,yet, it's the second day that I wear it at home in the evening.
After half an hour the pain is...noticeable, toes are compressed (too much for my liking) and I feel some pressure point on the side of my left foot (interestingly enough, the narrower of the two) and on the external portion of the calf of the right one (a pain point that made me ditch the Dalbello Scorpion 130 I had purchased some years ago in favour of the Tecnica 9.8).
After one hour I have to take them off, feet are numb and don't regain their natural shape for some minutes after extracting them from the boots.
As agreed with the boot fitter, the boot-fitting process has just barely begun after all, I will need to go see them after actually having skied in the boots for at least a couple of times. But the two evenings of "on the sofa skiing" sessions so far have made me think that I will need a bit more room for the toes, a punch on the external side of the left boot , a punch on the external calf of the right one and a custom footbed. To begin with. Actual, on-the-snow-skiing will tell more.