For the people out there who run exclusively in racing flats or something with very little heel to toe drop, what prompted you to do that? What type of problems or pain did you overcome?
For the people out there who run exclusively in racing flats or something with very little heel to toe drop, what prompted you to do that? What type of problems or pain did you overcome?
As a natural forefootstriker a shoe with too much drop forces my feet in plantarflexion. In a zero or low drop shoe I can keep my feet neutral and pretensed without it becoming impossible to land on the balls of my feet.
I was a poor college kid and needed shoes but couldn't afford them. Started wearing Air Mariah's and Duelist to get by. Realized the plantar issue I was having went away. That was in '88-'89. Been in flats ever since with no issue. "Most" shoe I have in rotation right now is Lunar Tempo.
5'6"
125lbs
Your height/weight are sure contributors to minimal footwear...Anyone have experience with Altra? Kimetto, Haile, Kipchoge it seems as if all the world record/world class times are always run in the Zoom Streak, Adios which are 10-12 drop.
clerk2 wrote:
Your height/weight are sure contributors to minimal footwear...Anyone have experience with Altra? Kimetto, Haile, Kipchoge it seems as if all the world record/world class times are always run in the Zoom Streak, Adios which are 10-12 drop.
Umm, and who pays them the big bucks to wear those high heeled shoes? Trying to overcome 45+ yrs of "tradition" is a little tough for a company.
truth be told. wrote:
clerk2 wrote:Your height/weight are sure contributors to minimal footwear...Anyone have experience with Altra? Kimetto, Haile, Kipchoge it seems as if all the world record/world class times are always run in the Zoom Streak, Adios which are 10-12 drop.
Umm, and who pays them the big bucks to wear those high heeled shoes? Trying to overcome 45+ yrs of "tradition" is a little tough for a company.
They have shoes with lower drop, too.
When I was approaching 40 in the early 90s I decided I should start stretching regularly, something that always got me into trouble and did again in a big way with my right knee. I'd always run in simple, cheap, shoes but decided with the knee trouble that I should get something that was state of the art. And the problem got so much worse.
I decided that if "more" shoe made the knee worse then maybe less shoe was the answer. So I started running in racing shoes and the problem went away. But everyone "knew" that you couldn't do all your runs in racing shoes, too little support, so I switched back once the knee was better and the pain came back. I went back to racing shoes and it went away. I did this a couple more times before deciding it was best just to stay in racers.
HRE wrote:
When I was approaching 40 in the early 90s I decided I should start stretching regularly, something that always got me into trouble and did again in a big way with my right knee. I'd always run in simple, cheap, shoes but decided with the knee trouble that I should get something that was state of the art. And the problem got so much worse.
I decided that if "more" shoe made the knee worse then maybe less shoe was the answer. So I started running in racing shoes and the problem went away. But everyone "knew" that you couldn't do all your runs in racing shoes, too little support, so I switched back once the knee was better and the pain came back. I went back to racing shoes and it went away. I did this a couple more times before deciding it was best just to stay in racers.
I too found that trainers caused knee problems for me. Seemed like the extra cushion delayed the plant of my foot, causing a bit of swivel that ultimately impacted my knee. I have also never encountered PF while running in flats, while I suffered through it at various times when using trainers
Foot and ankle problems from trainers
I've run only in the Brooks T7 for years now. I switched because I could not find a trainer that didn't try to "correct" all of the things God gave me such as a natural heel toe drop, and no medial posts.
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