Hills - good for the soul...
http://honestsstories.blogspot.co.uk
Hills - good for the soul...
http://honestsstories.blogspot.co.uk
Clearly a personal preference I've tried pretty much all forms of running and have always gravitated towards the off-road disciplines (Orienteering, Trail & Fell). Not particularly good at any of them though
Thanks for the tip, gives me a few options to look at
Hills - good for the soul...
http://honestsstories.blogspot.co.uk
no need to bother with gait analysis
to decide if you need motion-control, support or cushioned (neutral) shoes, just try this:
http://www.runnersworld.ltd.uk/foottype.htm
I'm neutral, and can recommend Mizuno Wave Rider, Asics Cumulus or Saucony Progrid Ride as solid mid-price jobbies
if you want to spend more, then Mizuno Creation, Asics Nimbus or Saucony Triumph
oh, and brace yourself for shin-splints, plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis, ilio-tibial band syndrome, stress fractures...
Last edited by DazTheSlug; 15-01-2010 at 04:51 PM.
Scramble the rock face through the glare of morning sun — to run
That runnersworld link makes me utterly sick, they are propagating the myth that we are all inheritanly broken in some way and need fixing with the proper shoes, well we've managed to evolve to become the dominant species on this planet by running and we did this quite happily for 100's of thousand years barefoot or as good as. 40 years of shoe "Technology" has not made anyone more faster and could quite possibly be the reason why there are more and more cases of running injuries.
You only have to see how runnersworld is ad funded to realise why they still spout this stuff. Its the road to injury, ignore.
Well said Twister.
Runners world = superfluous froth with the smiley airbrushed front cover and 'subscriber only content' on the website its sterile.
(although the runnersworld.com site isn't bad).
Last time I flicked through it in tescos they were reviewing some sort of shoe with metal springs in the heels, and no, it wasn't the april issue. Its quite sad because people use this publication as gospel.
Regarding shoes. racing flats are all you need for the road if you really must run on tarmac, something like saucony fastwitch or similar.
I think I'll be trying the INOV8 230s for all rounders until the xtalon 190s come out in july.
The Less cushioning and support the better
Thanks folks. I had been wondering about the F-Lite 230s... Does anyone on the forum have personal experience of doing long road runs in them ?
It's time I made a decision, and given all your helpful responses, I'm left with a lot of options
Hills - good for the soul...
http://honestsstories.blogspot.co.uk
If you have done the miles and your muscles are developed thus taking enough of the load away from your joints, fastwitches should be ok.DONT..use fastwitches.........dont please, youll get crippled. I cant manage more than 15 miles in a pair