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It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
A Saucy Wench
This is the first post I read in this thread and I'm a little scared. I'm not even going to try to figure out what has been going on in the past 23 pages.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Jazz hands!
It was like how if you put infinite monkeys in a room with typewriters eventually they're write Hamlet, but without the monkeys or the typewriters or the Hamlet.
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
It was like how if you put infinite monkeys in a room with typewriters eventually they'll write Hamlet, but without the monkeys or the typewriters or the Hamlet. I don't think the monkeys or typewriters are the parts that are missing.
It was like how if you put infinite monkeys in a room with typewriters eventually they'll write Hamlet, but without the monkeys or the typewriters or the Hamlet.
Marathon Maniac #991 Half Fanatic #58 Double Agent #22 It's a perfect day and I feel great!
Feeling the growl again
Well if you're so qualified quit being cryptic and spit it out. What was "his sport"? Was it Usain Bolt in the 100m or Bekele in the 10,000m? Perhaps Gebreselaise in the marathon? What sport are you talking about? This is a RUNNING website so let's hear it.... What is "your sport?" Are you Bolt, Bekele, or Geb under s pseudonym? Or is tournament bridge now an athletic sport? Cricket, perhaps? Joggling? 9mph walk, great. Again, this is a RUNNING website. Who cares how fast you can move when purposely handicapping yourself by keeping a foot on the ground? That's 6:42 a mile, there are a few of us on here who can easily keep that up for 3+ hours for well over a marathon distance if we want to. Now how long/far was it you CONSTANTLY held that 9mph? And how does WALKING at 9mph mean you know anything about RUNNING?
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
So I tried this heel to toe walking thing on my way to the wine shop last night (long before I had anything to drink and without the benefit of flashing blue lights) and it seemed a less effective to move my foot forward and to the center line than to move my foot forward and put it down directly in front of where it was on the last step. But I'm old and slow and what do I know.
Biomimeticist
Experts said the world is flat
Experts said that man would never fly
Experts said we'd never go to the moon
Name me one of those "experts"...
History never remembers the name of experts; just the innovators who had the guts to challenge and prove the "experts" wrong
Interesting how you claim to be such an authority, yet when asked directly for succinct clarifications of the resume you provide you pretend you don't see it. Or when Trent asks you for refs to back up your "science" you blither around and avoid ever providing any... FRAUD is the only word that comes to mind. Go home, Richard.
Good Bad & The Monkey
Jester, I question why I run the way I run. Can you help me get faster? I'm rather heavy set and do not have access to a treadmill. Thanks in advance
Hey Panda, start by becoming a more efficient walker. Larger humans tend to induce more forward lean in their walking posture. Injury points are common with the big toe of the foot and lower back. Also Plantar Fasciitis is an isue to larger size.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Your goal at this point is learning to lean back with your upper body,...blah blah blah... That's the primary difference. If you can become comfortable with pulling your weight instead of leaning forward and pushing yourself rearward, what you've just done is get rid of the biomechanic limits of overstriding.
jestering
Do I have to wear the curly-Q shoes with the points and the little bells on them? Or the funny hat?