Originally Posted by
waterrockets
Yep, the upper surface of the cleat has worn against the pedal, where the pedal maintains downward tension on the cleat (front and back). It's surely a combination of cleat and pedal wear, but hopefully most of it is just the cleat. If you examine these surfaces of the pedal, you should be able to see how much it's worn.
Yep, new cleats did the trick, thanks guys. Weird that it happened so quickly and on both cleats at once. The old ones didn't look much different, but it stopped clicking, so whatever.
The ones I got from the LBS are the non rubber walking ones, they have the white stuff. Gonna have to dig out my cleat covers so I don't die. New ones were also slightly skinnier than the old ones, which made my markings on where to put them not that helpful.