besides wearing our competition shoes occasionally to break them in.
besides wearing our competition shoes occasionally to break them in.
It depends on:
- what shoe you use as trainers
- how different in design your race shoes are from your trainers
- the speed differential between training/workouts/racing
One example:
If you attempt to exclusively use a high-stack rockered shoe for training then it may leave your lower leg underdeveloped through guiding you towards more of a heel-to-toe roll, and foot undeveloped through partially demobilizing the windlass mechanism.
Then step in a lightweight & flexible race shoe to run a fast 5k and boom; your calf's are on fire and foot has plantar fasciitis.
If you had slipped the race shoes on once a week for some speed work then your body would be better conditioned to properly utilize them.
To make pace/feel accurate when replicating race conditions.
ViperDom wrote:
It depends on:
- what shoe you use as trainers
- how different in design your race shoes are from your trainers
- the speed differential between training/workouts/racing
One example:
If you attempt to exclusively use a high-stack rockered shoe for training then it may leave your lower leg underdeveloped through guiding you towards more of a heel-to-toe roll, and foot undeveloped through partially demobilizing the windlass mechanism.
Then step in a lightweight & flexible race shoe to run a fast 5k and boom; your calf's are on fire and foot has plantar fasciitis.
If you had slipped the race shoes on once a week for some speed work then your body would be better conditioned to properly utilize them.
This is a good point. I used to do my track workouts and threshold runs in lightweight trainers and then switch to flats for races. My calves/achilles would get destroyed because I wasn't used to lower profile. So I started mixing in flats at least once a week.
Trainers feel clunky at faster paces. If you can choose between feeling smooth and feeling clunky, why pick the latter?
clunky?
why be clunky? wrote:
Trainers feel clunky at faster paces. If you can choose between feeling smooth and feeling clunky, why pick the latter?
Wear Adidas and you won't feel clunky.
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Why not train with ankle weights on?
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