What do you think is faster and more responsive- racing flats(no spikes) on the track, or the same racing flats on the road?
What do you think is faster and more responsive- racing flats(no spikes) on the track, or the same racing flats on the road?
The flats will be slightly faster on a well paved road due to more bounce, but over long distances the road will beat up your legs more. This is why harder tracks favor sprinters.
Yarly wrote:
The flats will be slightly faster on a well paved road due to more bounce, but over long distances the road will beat up your legs more. This is why harder tracks favor sprinters.
I run with type A8 shoes. On the road they feel super bouncy and responsive and fast, yet on the track it’s terrible- no power coming back from the surface and my form also look different (I filmed myself). The times are also slower on the track. I don’t know what’s the story, maybe you must use only spikes on the track.
I have the A8 and Kinarva 9's. The A8 are obviously faster on the road but on the grass I literally found them slower then the Kinvaras. I guess it is like a Lamborghini and a Landcruiser. The Lamborhgini will be faster on the road but the Landcruiser will obviously be faster of road.
Banana Bread wrote:
I have the A8 and Kinarva 9's. The A8 are obviously faster on the road but on the grass I literally found them slower then the Kinvaras. I guess it is like a Lamborghini and a Landcruiser. The Lamborhgini will be faster on the road but the Landcruiser will obviously be faster of road.
Why would Kinvara be faster on the grass than A8? The A8 should be faster everywhere- they have less cushion and less weight. The less cushion the faster you should be. The grass is cushioned and the kinvara also have high cushioning- that should slow you down shouldn’t it?
Btw, I find the kinvara 9 worse than the kinvara 6. They weight the same, but the K6 feels more responsive and faster. The k9 feels heavy
I've raced both on the road and track in the same pair of flats within a couple weeks of each other. 30 secs faster on the track over what one could consider a "fast road course" -ie flat, 2 turns
Unless you are running on a perfectly flat smooth paved race track with distance markings like the breaking 2 project, you are going to run faster on the track than you would on the roads. There is a reason all the fastest race times are on tracks and not the roads.
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