RunningAHEAD - Topic: ultimate runner's test...... (page 9)

MrH

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:33 PM
modified: 2/11/2009 at 9:34 PM

Sport Jester's favorite shoes ...

The process is the goal.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

schoolmarm

12-week layoff

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:34 PM

Quote from sport jester on 2/11/2009 at 9:27 PM:

Ever hear of a shoe by Nike called the "Free" The question was how to optimize the use of the shoe.

I was waiting for that. Got enough meat for two, srl? Not sure I could wear the free with my orthotics. And has anyone ever told you you catch more flies with honey?

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:34 PM

Yet the Free isn't a running shoe, its a training shoe, and with that they still interfere with optimum foot biomechanics

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

Squeaky

Jazz hands!

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:36 PM

Quote from xor on 2/11/2009 at 9:28 PM:

Cha-ching. And. I've got your meat.

That's what she said! *rimshot* Also I feel like I should win something (more meat?) because I CALLED THIS LIKE FOUR PAGES AGO. The force is strong with this one. (This one being me.)

run run run AHHHHHH run run run

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:36 PM

Hey "marm, So what's your walk to run transition speed?

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

Squeaky

Jazz hands!

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:38 PM

Quote from sport jester on 2/11/2009 at 9:36 PM:

Hey "marm, So what's your walk to run transition speed?

You walk up to the ladies in bars and ask them this, don't you?

run run run AHHHHHH run run run

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:39 PM

walk to run transition speed determines running efficiency. If I can walk at a speed you need to run to accomplish, then I'm using less energy to accomplish the same speed

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:43 PM

Quote from sport jester on 2/11/2009 at 9:34 PM:

Yet the Free isn't a running shoe, its a training shoe...

You say tomayto, I say tomahto, you say potayto, I say potahto Tomayto, tomahto, potayto, potahto...let's call the whole thing off... I'm here all night, folks. Try the beef and don't forget to tip your waitress.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:46 PM
modified: 2/11/2009 at 9:46 PM

No actually a big difference, I wear out the Frees faster than for their design envelope. The stress loads to the shoe can't hold up to to optimum foot biomechanics Hence most of my running is still barefoot

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

ArlaHile

Queen of 3rd Place

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:48 PM

This thread made my day on so many levels.

Ex runner

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:49 PM

Quote from ArlaHile on 2/11/2009 at 9:48 PM:

This thread made my day on so many levels.

And now I wish I had some potatoes...I'm hungry.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

schoolmarm

12-week layoff

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:53 PM

Quote from sport jester on 2/11/2009 at 9:39 PM:

walk to run transition speed determines running efficiency. If I can walk at a speed you need to run to accomplish, then I'm using less energy to accomplish the same speed

Ever been in a literature class, and the teacher sucks all of the fun out of reading what should have been a good book? You're trying to suck all of the fun out of my running. I'm not going to go into all of the problems with my feet, but suffice it to say that I have found a combination of shoes and orthotics that works for me. I don't want to run barefoot. I don't want to wear the free. I don't care about how my run to walk transition speed determines my running efficiency. I just want to run. Sometimes fast. Sometimes long. And avoid having surgery on my feet.

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:56 PM

I don't want you to need surgery either.

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

sport jester

Biomimeticist

posted: 2/11/2009 at 9:58 PM

The biological question is how to reduce the impact forces your body absorbs with each step you take. The higher the impact force, the quicker you'll need surgery.

Experts said the world is flat

Experts said that man would never fly

Experts said we'd never go to the moon

Name me one of those "experts"...

History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong

zoom-zoom

rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 2/11/2009 at 10:00 PM

Quote from sport jester on 2/11/2009 at 9:56 PM:

I don't want you to need surgery either.

I can guarantee if I run barefoot around here I will need surgery...to remove broken beer bottles from my feet and to treat frostbite.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

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