Hot Foot
 

Do/have you experienced hot foot when pedaling 5-6 hours? How'd you solve it? It's been a problem for me for a long time, right worse than left. Moving my foot around on the pedal helps. I do have some plantar fasciitis in that foot.

On a recent tour, I carried a pair of water shoes with added insole for expected rain. Light, open weave tops, flexable. When the rain started, I changed from the heavier trail shoes to the water shoes. Big surprise. Instant and continuous relief from hot foot. Mailed the trail shoes home and had no more foot problems for the rest of the tour.

I used to get hotfoot, but I solved the problem ...

1. I moved my cleats all the way back
2. I ensure that my shoes can be loose if I want ... my cycling shoes are lace-up so they can be tight or loose. Looser is better.


Since I did that ... no more hotfoot. Not even for my 90-hour 1200K randonnees.

Yeah, I think the more expandable water shoes had a lot to do with it. And the ventilation maybe. Next tour will see me in a wider shoe than I normally wear.

Okay don't mean to burst your water bubble Cyclebum...LOL:) Last year when doing 150-200 mile long days here in NH on occasion I would get...what I called, sore feet. I wouldn't necessarily call it hot foot but the feet would ache by the time the ride was over. I asked the same question...essentially, over on the Rando forum and someone posted back what sounded like the stupidest thing known to mankind. The poster said to switch socks. I had been wearing cotton anklet socks during the spring-fall months. Wintertime I would wear...what I consider to be midweight merino wool socks. The poster said to wear wool socks. I thought the guy had to be totally crazy. Wool socks during the summer months...you gotta be nuts. I decided to give it a shot. I have been wearing wool socks ever since...with one exception. As I was coming off my broken ankle a couple of months ago I decided to go for the first 100 miler or the year. I also was going to go back to wearing cycling shoes on both feet. I had been wearing a regular tennis shoe on the bum leg. I had been having trouble on easy days...40-50 miles. Less I wasn't having the problem but once the mileage got up toward 40-50 miles my bum foot would ache right around the ball of the foot. Everyday the same thing. I figured if I even tried to keep the soft soled tennis shoe on for the 100 miler I would end up regretting it big time. Instead I rode with the cycling shoe and cotton sock. At the beginning of the ride it wasn't too bad but by the time I was 30 miles into the ride it felt like the arch support was poking up into my arch. The shoes had changed any at all. I was beginning to wandering if I had did some kind of strange arch damage when I broke the ankle. By the time I got home from the first 90 miles I proudly took of the cycling shoe and put the tennis shoe back on. The next several days the foot remained sore. Once it started to feel better I switched back to the cycling shoe and also made the switch back over to wool socks on both feet. I haven't had the problem since. Their has been a couple of times when I have ridden since with cotton socks and have notice the feet always seem worse off for it. Watch you socks. I think they play more to the tune of everything towards how the feet feel then anything else. I was wearing the wool socks last summer, end of August, when I rode roundtrip from NH-St. Louis. It was in the low 90s several days and I didn't have any kind of trouble with the feet at all, not even literal hot feet. I'm planning on wearing the wool socks for the trip coming up in a few weeks when I head down your way and may end up with coast to coast roundtrip ride before it is all over with a week off in AZ(I hope not but the temptation is too great...maybe the opportunity will disappear if I'm lucky).

You didin't have The Hot Foot.

You have a link to those shoes by chance? Curious about those.

Last year, early on, I had bad hot foot when using spd pedals on both the commuter and my long distance bike. So I changed the pedals on my long distance bike to road pedals and used a different shoe with stiffer soles. Then I added my custom made insoles into the shoes. Worked well.

But nevertheless, wool socks are the way to go to reduce the chances of hotfoot and other foot difficulties ... both for walking and cycling.

I switched to wool socks years ago after getting big blisters on the balls of my feet when walking with cotton socks. Just simply switching to wool (or in my case angora or cashmere) socks did the trick. No more blisters. And they work when cycling as well.


I've got a few cotton socks still hidden in the back of my sock drawer, but I should get rid of the seeing as I haven't worn them in at least 5 years.

Light a blow torch. Hold the ball of your foot over it for, oh...say 15-20 seconds. That's hot foot. Hurts. The nerve gets tenderized. I switched to gel insoles, lossened shoes. Hits me at 150 miles. Hope to solve it. Wool socks have more cushion than flattened sweated cotton. Wool socks are a good thought, worth a try.

Shimano SPD sandals plus thin athletic shoe insoles, no socks in 65 F plus weather, various layers of synthetic or smartwool socks as temperature decreases. No hot spots EVAR.

Hot foot is exactly the same thing that some women get when they wear high heels. There's nothing cycling specific about it.


In addition to:
- move the cleats back so you put less pressure on the nerves in your feet
- loosen your shoes
- wear wool socks

You might also try the little pads that women who wear high heels often wear in their shoes to ease high-heeled shoe hot foot.

There is so much I don't know about women :/

For really long days I use Superfeet insoles in my SPD cleat bike shoes. Not a hot foot issue, more of a sore foot issue.

You might be surprised the lengths some women go to in order to ... look good ... meet social expectations ...


Anyway, something like these can help ...
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...ar%2Caps%2C924

I used something like these, except they were built right into little foot nylons:
http://www.amazon.com/Rosallini-Adhe...etatarsal+pads

Something more like these, I think ...
http://www.amazon.com/HUE-Womens-3-P...words=toe+pads


But if the other suggestions don't work, something along these lines might help.

Bump to remind the OP of his double post

Good article about hot foot and ways to cure it. Duplicate thread deleted.