trackhead wrote:
it just depends if you use a shoe for cushioning or not
i suspect that is the real question to be asked. if it is a cushioning issue, then the question becomes does the shoe still have it after 3 months?
trackhead wrote:
it just depends if you use a shoe for cushioning or not
i suspect that is the real question to be asked. if it is a cushioning issue, then the question becomes does the shoe still have it after 3 months?
or maybe the "less shoe" shoes encouraged better mechanics. Combine this witht he fact that the majority of marathoners today have minimal athletic background and have been sedentary for decades.
bird wrote:
It could be something like survival of the fittest. 25 years ago shoes had less cushioning, were more minimal with less gizmos. Maybe people were getting less injuries then because the people who couldn't run in these kind of shoes simply didn't run. And the people that did run had better biomechanics therefore got fewer injuries. So, people who are biomechanically gifted still can run in minimalist shoes if they like- but the more built-up shoes allow the less gifted runners a chance to at least stay in the game.
even if one is using the shoe for cushioning, 3 months is still bullshit. That's like me filling up my tank and getting told this tank of gas will last you one week -- and not taking into account how much I'm going to drive nor how efficient my engine is.
trackhead wrote:
or maybe the "less shoe" shoes encouraged better mechanics. Combine this witht he fact that the majority of marathoners today have minimal athletic background and have been sedentary for decades.
or maybe the way they "encouraged" good mechanics was by eliminating those who didn't already have them.
trackhead wrote:
even if one is using the shoe for cushioning, 3 months is still bullshit. That's like me filling up my tank and getting told this tank of gas will last you one week -- and not taking into account how much I'm going to drive nor how efficient my engine is.
makes sense to me. i do not run in flats and want cushioning. i have found that i get about 800 miles on the shoe i wear before i notice a problem.
i would assume ones weight, footstrike and many other factors could come into play as well. 3 months, unless you run MUCH higher mileage than me seems wrong (unless you are a shoe salesman).
as always, ymmv.
People learn. Take the shoes off their feet and they adapt.
trackhead wrote:
People learn. Take the shoes off their feet and they adapt.
or they get injured and stop running.
its kinda tough to "learn" when you have a stress fracture.
You are relearning how to do things out of a high heel. There's no reason why it hsould lead to injury, if done properly. Speak to jaguar1 on this subject -- hse was rittled with stress fractures in regular shoes and since switching to modified track spikes for 100% of her running she has been injury free.
I know one friend of mine whom I bumped into at a sporting goods store who had a unique practice:
him "Hey how ya doin'?"
me "Great how're you?"
him "OK, but my feet and ankles are a bit sore lately"
me "How old are the shoes?"
(his daughter who was with him rolled her eyes toward the ceiling)
him (sheepishly) "uhhhh....five years old...."
In a word: duh.
This was back in the days when the Nike Air Pegasus was considered the top of the heap. You can over do it.