18 months is nothing, hon. A gradual breakdown could take that long or even longer. Once the breakdown gets to a certain point even minor trauma can cause big damage.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
I do not think the flats are to blame. I ran for over a year and a half in them just fine. My foot started hurting after I did a nasty hill workout. I had been running on mostly flat ground all this time and one day decided to do hill repeats on a very steep 400-meter hill. Mistake.