Captain Oblivious wrote:
I ran on dirt roads and forest trails for years and stalled out in my development for a period of about 5 years where I was consistent but did not improve..
Moved to the city and ran on nothing but concrete and took minutes off my 10 km -half.
Now I'm wetting myself! You are flippin' hilarious, brah.
Marmite then? wrote:
Captain Oblivious wrote:I ran on dirt roads and forest trails for years and stalled out in my development for a period of about 5 years where I was consistent but did not improve..
Moved to the city and ran on nothing but concrete and took minutes off my 10 km -half.
Now I'm wetting myself! You are flippin' hilarious, brah.
Thanks, but the point is not humor.
Always love these debates here, where a contingent acts like the only thing they run on are soft wood chip paths with bubbling brooks to cool them and little elves running around that all look like pre.
Then the inevetable "I ran on concrete for a year and I had to have all my bones replaced" horror story.
What they don't mention is that they are a self absorbed sample size of one.
Depends what i'm training for. Summer season i often choose dirt roads, but when i'm training for the marathon 2/3 is on concrete as you have to run 26 miles on it. When you're not used to that you can get problems.
I prefer freshly laid concrete
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