Hiking Shoes

I browsed through a forum thread about recovering from foot stress fracture last night, and came across one where a runner said she wore hiking boots after taking the walking boot off to help protect her foot more.  It made a lot of sense, hiking boots have a lot stiffer soles than even running shoes, and would give greater protection for the foot as it recovered.

Then I thought, if the blasted ankle part wasn't covered, I could even run in them.

So I browsed at lunch at "running" "hiking boots" options and came across... hiking shoes.  They're built exactly like boots, except cut off before the ankles, giving my ankle the mobility it needs to run but still all the support at the bottom of the shoe.

After work, I dashed over to REI and picked up a pair of Keen "cross training" boots, the non-waterproof version of their walking boot. 

The bonus is that they're the same height profile as my walking boot, so I can wear it sometimes on the right foot until the left one comes out of the boot. :3