Research Struggles

     As I'm starting to research for my rational argument one thing I'm quickly finding is how limited research is on certain topics which is making it hard for me to select certain topics and forced me to change what I want my paper to be about. 

    This isn't the first time I've had issues with this on research papers. In high school I was wanting to write a paper on mental and physical abuse within sports but was met with few papers that truly explored the topics in a way I could use in my paper. Most of the research done was more focused on sexual abuse rather than mental or physical abuse. I ended up shifting my focus to sexual abuse in order to get the amount of content I needed. 

    For this paper I was initially wanting to write about carbon plated running shoes and racing spikes to see if you truly get the performance advantages that are advertised and is it worth the price that comes with those types of shoes. I was also wanting to see if there were any consequences from running in these types of shoes especially negative consequences because the positives are what you always hear about. Unfortunately I wasn't met with much useful research and with carbon plated shoes being relatively new being able to find any long term effects of running in them was impossible to me. Is it I wasn't looking in the right place and there is the research out there? That's very possible but didn't change the fact the I wasn't able to find enough to write the paper so I had to shift what my topic was.