RUNNING ON YOUR TOES

try to run on your toes and you will break them all one by one. It is impossible to run on your toes.

Shorten your stride - increase the cadence at the same speed. Your footstrike should automatically change to mid-foot, which is probably where you want to be. I might feel like you're running slower at first because it's smoother, but check your watch.

up-hill striders

What is it with you people trying to run on your toes? WHere in the hell did this "run on the balls of your feet" crap start flooding the market.

Name ONE top level runner who runs on their toes.

well, these are former HS runners, but they were good.

Lopez Lomong

Dominic Luka

Josh McDougal

read this article. it's good.

http://www.tullyrunners.com/Articles/RaucciArticle.htm

I don't know if you know much about Scott Nagelkerke (WSC alum), but he is the freaking master of running on toes (although I think this is natural for him). He looks like a ballerina when he runs. Very efficient stride, but strikingly up on his toes. I used to try to copy this, but it didn't work well for me. Maybe it would work well for some if you tried to go at it more slowly.

I agree with whoever said to shorten your stride. You will naturally land where you should land, on your midfoot as it passes under your hips.

LaWoof:

Gebrselassie is known to have a forefoot style.

Tom Mcardle is a toe running god. I watched him toy with people at heps year after year and had a major PR breakthrough once I adopted his style. Don't be stupid, it works.

Toer wrote:

Tom Mcardle is a toe running god. I watched him toy with people at heps year after year and had a major PR breakthrough once I adopted his style. Don't be stupid, it works.

Tom IS a running god, and I don't doubt that you had a big PR, but it isn't for everyone. If you can feasibly train yourself to get up on your toes, great. But for some people heel striking is so natural that it'd be a mistake to mess with it. (I know this from personal experience. I tried messing with my striking and suffered. Went back to the heel and I was fine. My speed didn't suffer either.)

Basically, like most advice on these boards, training is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Give it a try. If it works, great. If it feels terrible or if you just can't get it to work, don't sweat it.

I have slow mo vid of his feet in the final 400m of a 5k where he is heel striking.

You people just THINK that they are forefoot striking but if you REALLY slow it down, MOST runners will contact the ground with their HEEL first. That is not to say that they are slaming into the ground with the heel like most rec runners, but that the heel is being PLACED on the ground to help control energy and smooth out the stride. It saves energy.

Shorter strides are not the answer. They are a DRILL. You think that there are any runners that are taking shorter strides in a race?

That should have read "Tom is a toe running god" but it's not too far from the truth in its original form I guess.

LaWoof wrote:

I have slow mo vid of his feet in the final 400m of a 5k where he is heel striking.

You people just THINK that they are forefoot striking but if you REALLY slow it down, MOST runners will contact the ground with their HEEL first. That is not to say that they are slaming into the ground with the heel like most rec runners, but that the heel is being PLACED on the ground to help control energy and smooth out the stride. It saves energy.

Shorter strides are not the answer. They are a DRILL. You think that there are any runners that are taking shorter

strides in a race?

wrong LaWoof, you need to look at those videos again, you don't know what you are talking about.

LaWoof wrote:

I have slow mo vid of his feet in the final 400m of a 5k where he is heel striking.

Please make an appointment to get lasic.

Tippy Toe Tippy Toe!!

Dieter Baumann ran on his toes. Watch the 92 Olympic 5000m finaL THAT HE WON.

How about Paula Radcliffe. 26.2, all up on her forefoot.

If you march in place you will notice that you land ball/heel. Actually the running on the toes is in my mind a misnomer.

What occurs is that if you march in place and lean from the ankle, you'll still be marching in place, however you'll be moving/falling forward with each step.

If you jump off a 18 in ledge or wall, you do not land on your heels. You land on the ball and the knees flex to absorb the shock.

What purple was saying above about taking smaller steps will help.

You do land on the ball first and the heel touches down instantaneously. So you actually don't stay on the ball in longer runs.

When people heel strike, they are actualy landing on the back of the heel of the shoe and not on the heel of the foot, which is about two inches or so in front of the back of the heel of the shoe.

Shorter quicker steps.

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I think you will increase you chance of being injured of you run on your toes or sprian you ankles dont know though

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