Kofuzi blames Saucony for injury

That was Kofuzi's problem all along, lack of enough quality miles. With the amount of running he does he should have broken 3, especially in Vaporflies.

Dude wasn't committed enough. Why would anyone want to follow his half-assed running journey? You can already see he gets a fraction of the views he used to.

To be fair he's probably been capable of running sub 3, but with his camera fetish that's not enough.

Mini-Mike is low energy.

To be fair, he moved in with his in laws for the summer in rural Iowa so he’s probably bored, and without any racing training blocks to vlog about, really scrambling for some content. I like him a lot though I haven’t watched much lately. While the area he’s in now looks safe and relaxing it also looks like an incredibly boring place to run day in and day out.

Running is a funny sport. It’s SO simple, yet seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly myopic when analyzing their own training. I suppose that’s why coaches are necessary for some. Dear Kofuzi, it’s not the shoes. You just ran too much without mixing in enough recovery.

It would really be best to toss all those spreadsheets and half his gadgets. He needs

- a real coach

-training partners to push him

-strength work & cross training

-More Saucony

More Saucony AND more New Balance.

Does anyone know why kofuzi is in Iowa instead of Chicago? Is he afraid of catching the COVID or something?

cb wrote:

Running is a funny sport. It’s SO simple, yet seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly myopic when analyzing their own training. I suppose that’s why coaches are necessary for some. Dear Kofuzi, it’s not the shoes. You just ran too much without mixing in enough recovery.

Partly it is about the shoes. That dude is the runner who knows least about running shoes. I watched a video where he announced that Nike Pegasus shoes always start to give knee pain after 270 miles or something like that. It was Peg 34. I was wondering what is that about because I had always put 1000K on running shoes without any problems. So I went to buy a pair of Peg 34s and ran 1013K. After that the shoe still had a lot of cushioning left, caused no problems whatsoever and looked almost brand new.

I think he wears wrong shoes for wrong occasions. For example he is running slowly in race shoes. That is a good recipe for injuries when you wear too often shoes that are not daily trainers.

cb wrote:

Running is a funny sport. It’s SO simple, yet seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly myopic when analyzing their own training. I suppose that’s why coaches are necessary for some. Dear Kofuzi, it’s not the shoes. You just ran too much without mixing in enough recovery.

Most MAF devotees eventually hit the wall of injury and performance regression. It's a good plan for beginners because it allows them to build a base and run more miles. The drawback is that it often reinforces a lot of bad form and many MAF runners start believing that speedwork causes injuries and avoid it altogether. In the end, they develop a very inefficient stride with greater ground contact time that makes their lower body very tight and inelastic. That and the notion that improvement only happens with running even more MAF mileage is what leads to injury.

But, since people like Phil Maffetone, Floris Gierman, and others pitch MAF as the most safe and foolproof means of getting fit, then shoes must cause the problems because it is impossible to get hurt with such easy running, right?

Baltsu wrote:

cb wrote:

Running is a funny sport. It’s SO simple, yet seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly myopic when analyzing their own training. I suppose that’s why coaches are necessary for some. Dear Kofuzi, it’s not the shoes. You just ran too much without mixing in enough recovery.

I think he wears wrong shoes for wrong occasions. For example he is running slowly in race shoes. That is a good recipe for injuries when you wear too often shoes that are not daily trainers.

Yes, he ran easy runs on trails with Adidas Adizero Boston. That must hurt!

Run6556 wrote:

Baltsu wrote:

I think he wears wrong shoes for wrong occasions. For example he is running slowly in race shoes. That is a good recipe for injuries when you wear too often shoes that are not daily trainers.

Yes, he ran easy runs on trails with Adidas Adizero Boston. That must hurt!

I liked the Boston 7 but have noticed that my heel & achilles hurts afterwards. I think that they only have 150-200km or less.

No, it can't be that low. It must be your feet that don't like the shoe.. What other shoes do you have?

His real problem is a complete inability and lack of understanding as to how to train to run fast. He has zero quality days so he never adapts to faster running.