How come every time I run in shoes between 10-12mm in my drop, the insides of my shins hurt like crazy? Everything below10mm drop I have no problem with when I run in them. Am I just used to low drop now?
How come every time I run in shoes between 10-12mm in my drop, the insides of my shins hurt like crazy? Everything below10mm drop I have no problem with when I run in them. Am I just used to low drop now?
no comment except to say that cracked rear view is a better album.
Listen, Dorothy: if I put you in a pair of shoes with an 8mm drop and another pair with a 10mm drop and didn't tell you which was which, I guarantee that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. So I have a hard time believing you. Now if you were alternating between 12mm and 0mm drop shoes, then there may be something to talk about.
Sounds like you're just being a diva.
Princess and the Pea wrote:
Listen, Dorothy: if I put you in a pair of shoes with an 8mm drop and another pair with a 10mm drop and didn't tell you which was which, I guarantee that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. So I have a hard time believing you. Now if you were alternating between 12mm and 0mm drop shoes, then there may be something to talk about.
Sounds like you're just being a diva.
You're right, but you're also over-simplifying it. You wouldn't notice right away, but your body would notice after a few hundred miles. For me, its the difference between pain free running and tendinitis.
Princess and the Pea wrote:
Listen, Dorothy: if I put you in a pair of shoes with an 8mm drop and another pair with a 10mm drop and didn't tell you which was which, I guarantee that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. So I have a hard time believing you. Now if you were alternating between 12mm and 0mm drop shoes, then there may be something to talk about.
Sounds like you're just being a diva.
Going from 10mm drop to 6mm drop is very noticeable to me in the shoes I've worn, not that I have pain with either but I can 'feel' the difference. Helps to have run thousands of miles in both styles. 8 to 10...I wouldn't be surprised if I could tell, but production tolerances could easily mean that both shoes had the same drop, or that the '10' had less than the '8'.
Seems to me that higher drop shoes would increase the forward "lean" of your lower leg and thus increase the pressure on the shins, while lower drop shoes would tend to put more pressure on the calves, achilles tendons... Agree it would be difficult to feel the difference on day one, but would likely feel the impact as the time/miles accumulate.
Can't say that unless the only difference is the drop and everything else is the same. Different brand, models or even versions of the same model can cause that effect (even with the same drop).
You did say "everything" below 10mm. Did you also compare with "everything" above 10mm?
just thinking it through wrote:
Seems to me that higher drop shoes would increase the forward "lean" of your lower leg and thus increase the pressure on the shins, while lower drop shoes would tend to put more pressure on the calves, achilles tendons... Agree it would be difficult to feel the difference on day one, but would likely feel the impact as the time/miles accumulate.
You don't spend a lot of time while running with your foot firmly planted on the ground so I don't think that angle would make a meaningful difference.
Higher drop shoes mean less travel of the heel downward before contacting the ground assuming someone is landing on their forefoot. That's what I notice, at least, and vice versa when running in lower drop shoes.
I think that for heel strikers it is the reverse: there is more rocking motion from initial contact to foot flat on the ground with a higher drop shoe than a lower drop. I'm guessing it's personal as to whether this is good or bad.