a brief biomechanic analysis of sub-elite marathon runners part 1

introduction to basic distance running biomechanics:
why biomechanics are important,
and an analysis of 3:04 and 2:21 marathon runners running at race pace on a treadmill

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• Vo2maxProductions
• Running
• biomechanics
• distance
• running
• marathons
• marathon

[a5231674]

I run toe heel if that makes any difference

[Vo2maxProductions]

yeah, without seeing your form it is hard to say- you would want to work into the lighter shoes slowly though so your tendons and feet could adapt to less support...

its going to depend on how much you weigh and how fast of a runner you are, and how much you are running. The lunaracer has a decently wide bottom (compared to something like the T6 or Asics Piranha so you could probably transition into that. Just depends on how competitive you are looking to be also.

[Vo2maxProductions]

to answer your question: no. If your pronation is excessive and if you have really messed up arches you could race in flats and have an insert (usually custom made) put inside. Brooks makes a couple, lighter road shoes that you could race in with a little bit of a posting (the grey material) that would help your pronation: The STracer and the Ravenna. The lack of support in most racing flats is usually something you can get away with though- especially if you are fast enough to wear them!

[openuniverse2003]

Please re-do this without the ghey music and the ghey voice-over. Thanks.

[durianriders]

Google up vegan runners:

Michael Arnstein (2:28 at boston 2010)

Scott Jurek

Scott Spitz

[a5231674]

Cheers for the advice. Got a pair of saucony grid fastwich 4 from a local store, felt better than the adidas range and the lunaracers. also were cheaper. They seem to have a little support yet being almost as light as the totally flat racers(about 50g). Maybe its a good idea to get used to a slightly supporting racer before trying the lightest flats. Currently at 35min 10k, 65kg and 40k/week while training for a duathlon.

[a5231674]

Thanks for the reply. I can see some are sort of inbetween,light trainer/racer type at 250-300g which still offer that bit of support. However i'm not sure it would be worth buying for the sake of saving less than 100g over my regular training shoes? Would you say then that for the sake of speed training, 5k-half marathon racing I would be fine with a flat which offers very little support but are very light weight (150-200g)such as Lunaracer or Adidas Adizero pro for example.

[a5231674]

Do you need to take pronation into account when buying racing shoes for the road. I have a normal arch and pronate, currently use Kayano 16 for training. I got the idea since there for only occasional use it didn't matter as all the racing shoes say they are for neutral runners.

[jonbauie]

where are you based? I need this kind of analysis

[universalxolove]

i hope this is a joke....