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>> stomping on concrete You mention it almost in passing but really this is exactly what makes running so high impact and what negates millions of years of ada
by brianmcc 3y ago
>> stomping on concrete
You mention it almost in passing but really this is exactly what makes running so high impact and what negates millions of years of adapted shock absorption.
There are ongoing debates about whether modern running shoes allow "heel strike" running rather than using the ball of one's foot to hit the ground, so - perhaps - modern running shoes are themselves enabling a maladapted and higher impact running technique. This is far from settled though as I understand it.
- lloeki 3y agoAgreed, it was not so much en passant as much as I did not want to elaborate a comment into an essay ;) Also agreed, running heel first feels like a terrible idea (and that's a skateboarder talking here, so I know my share about impact ;) Indeed at the very least a lot of downward energy is lost, uncaptured by Achille tendons: it really seems like a lot of waste to turn yourself from a digitigrade to a plantigrade, foregoing a whole joint and lever in the whole of that whip-like system.