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Originally Posted by The Dave
I believe what I'll be doing, instead of continuing to take this, is just go see a physical therapist, and see whats wrong with my running form, if thats the cause of the pain. I'll see if I can find an interesting article I read on this when I get home, and post it up.
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For sure see a sports physiologist about not only your running form but your feet. Some feet are very fliexible and need support and others are not and only need cushioning. Also some runners overpronate or underpronate and need some form of motion control shoe. Foot width will also be a consideration. An experienced physiologist who also runs will be familiar with shoe brands and will be able to recommend.
A physical therapist will be able to help you with asymmetries and muscle weakness and or stiffness.
All of these can hinder performance especially when trying to achieve a certain level within a certain time increasing risk of injury (mostly over use injury of the knees).
A good running shoe store with experienced runners as sales persons can be valuable too.
If all this is old hat my apologies
FWIW