The relationship between a runner and their shoes is a special one. When you find a pair of running shoes that work for you hold on tight and don’t let them go.

I’ve known runners stockpiling a particular make and model of running shoe because it’s been discontinued, breaking out a new pair from a pile every time their current pair wears out and dreading the day when they’ll have to find something new.

There’s others who are always trying something new, hoping that each new purchase will offer the perfect fit, a faster race time to help them resolve a niggly injury.

My first pair of running shoes were prescribed to be by a guy in a running shop. Either by chance or by skill, that pair of shoes saw me through my first year or two of running OK, so I bought another pair for my first marathon and then another pair when they wore down, and another until six pairs of the same make and model later I’ve done seven marathons in the same style of shoe. I trust those shoes. And trust is a hard thing to earn.

Over the last couple of years different pairs of shoes have come and gone. I get sent pairs to try out, some get passed on to my mum or friends, but a couple have stuck around. I now wear three different pairs of shoes to run in during the course of a week: one for my long runs, one for the track or treadmill and one pair for running with my running group.

This week I was sent a pair of Puma Mobium Elite V2 to try out. I put them on in my kitchen and walked around. They felt a bit odd and made a funny noise – but walking round in a kitchen isn’t want they’re designed for.

I headed to Hampstead Heath for a short run and as soon as I started running  they felt completely different. It was the first run after Hampton Court half and I’d planned to do just three miles but ended up getting home an hour later. It was a lovely day up on the Heath and so I carried on – and I was happy to do a few more miles in the shoes.

The shoes were comfy. This might not sound like the most scientific of evaluations, but it’s important. When my runners ask about shoes I tell them to go to a running shop, ask for advice but above all, go with what feels comfy.

The Puma Mobium Elites have a nice roomy toe area with nothing hard to bash against your toenails; running downhill this was a big plus. But the midfoot and heel were still snug around my fairly narrow feet.

On Thursday night I put them on again, this time to head to my running group. It’s a long process before shoes get a permanent place on my shoe-rotation schedule, but these are understudying for a couple of roles at the moment. My advice on these and all other shoes is the same: try them on, see if they feel comfy, don’t just buy what someone else tells you to buy. What feels comfy to me might not to you.

Here’s what Susan Partridge has to say about these shoes.

Mobium Elite V2- RRP: £85.  Stockist sweatshop.co.uk