From Kinetic Revolution:
"I’m lucky to work closely with an excellent sports podiatrist, Ian Griffiths (@Sports_Pod). In addition to specialising in foot biomechanics, Ian appreciates the importance of running form and physical conditioning as parts of the complex puzzle that makes up a runner’s physical capabilities.
Ian was recently asked to give a presentation to a group of runners on how to choose running shoes. Always a tricky topic to address, given that it can be assumed that people are attending hoping for definitive information on how to select the right shoe for them in a concise and tidy way. If they leave without these ‘answers’ they may well have considered the talk to have been poor. That said, Ian sticks brilliantly to his underpinning values in promoting the evidence based truth with respect to what we currently know (and don’t know). He also takes the opportunity to dispel some of the myths and untruths that a runner may encounter whilst searching for footwear for themselves.
Well worth a watch…"
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Caretaker/Overlook Hotel
While most of us probably already "preach' half that info already, it is good to hear repeated!
A couple good points that *I* got out of it were....
#1.) Comfort is king. Probably the single most important reason I'm in Nike Pegasus and, moreso than ever the latest iterations. If you aren't comfortable in a Pegasus 29 (or 30) then you've probably got something fairly unusual going on with your feet. They're like wearing slippers w/ pillows underneath. (Similarly why I was probably in Cumulus before that til Asics decided to mess around with them & ruin the party)
The "Goldilocks" shoe is the one to run in, for sure!!!
#2.) Anyone dealing with the "best footstrike" dilema needs to know that moving the strike from one area to another will simply (and evenly) introduce stress in other parts of the anatomy. I like hearing this because almost every other conversation is one convincing people to quit trying to run how they read in a book and just RUN!!!!! About my best advice is "toes under your nose". That will usually keep overstriding out and cadence up. That's about as good as I can sum it up for folks.
Thanks Rick!
Randy
A good listen as I was getting ready this morning.
Basically, "don't wear uncomfortable shoes." Got it!
On that note, redrum, I just do not like the toebox in Nikes for my feet. So they're not comfortable for me.
Mmmmm...beer
A good listen as I was getting ready this morning. Basically, "don't wear uncomfortable shoes." Got it! On that note, redrum, I just do not like the toebox in Nikes for my feet. So they're not comfortable for me.
I'll have to wait till I get home to watch the video, but I agree, if a pair of shoes aren't comfortable from the moment I put them on, I don't wear them (this goes for running and regular shoes).
-Dave
My running blog
Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!
In my case, I'm limited by the fact that our nearby running stores are very small and carry very few wide women's shoes. Since I am so hard to fit, I don't want to buy shoes over the internet without trying them on first. The LRS in town only carries one brand in my size, so I end up driving 45 minutes to the next nearest store and they had 3 brands. Fortunately, one of those worked for me. Unfortunately, the one I liked best is no longer made, so I had to go back to get another model a year later.