Any opinions on Adidas Cloudfoam Lite Racer shoes?
Try going wide, especially as you get older. I’ve been a runner since 8th grade and never had a problem with running shoes, but in my forties, I noticed that my feet would get numb sometimes. I finally tried a wider shoe and my feet felt comfortable again.
Trouble is most running shoe stores don’t stock wide sizes. That’s were the internet comes in. This is where I get all my running shoes, great prices, wide sizes!
My opinion doesn’t matter. The best shoe in the world is the one that works for you.
There’s no universal best shoe.
Except for the Altra Escalante, which is the world’s best shoe.
I kid, I kid.
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You’re right.
I realized something though: My right foot seems to be slightly smaller than my left one which results in my left shoe fitting snuggly while there is some free movement in my right shoe. How can I resolve that? Wearing 2 socks or a thicker sock on the right? Anything else?
Never had that problem but here’s some lacing patterns intended to relieve different fit problems.
I have this problem. I use the heel lock lacing pattern (one of the lacing patterns in running coach’s link) for my smaller foot and the regular lacing pattern for my larger foot.
I’ve noticed something: I seem to have an easier time when I inhale in 1 step and exhale in 2 steps; Inhale, exhale then quickly exhale again.
Maybe it’s just confirmation bias or the placebo effect making me think I have an easier time. Through what mechanism could it be helping?
The impression I get is that we feel out of breath and discomfort not because of insufficient oxygen intake but because of insufficient carbon dioxide expulsion. Is this accurate? Is the expulsion of carbon dioxide the main performance bottleneck for most people? Once I’ve stopped running, I’m often out of breath for 30-60 seconds, is this caused by the CO2 in my body waiting to be exhaled rather than any lack of oxygen?
When running without making heel contact, i.e.: only landing the front of the foot, storing the energy in the lower leg then releasing it when I step off, I can run faster with hardly any muscle fatigue but it seems to produce carbon dioxide at a much faster rate than usual running.
I’m in total agreement about the Brooks Ghost 10. I bought a pair in early April and have over 450 miles on them. They’re the first shoes I’ve ever owned that I got more than 300 miles on. I bought a new set in June anticipating the ones I was in wearing out, and the new ones are still under my bed in a box. The new Brooks shoes are Ghost 11’s, which should be better, because they go to 11, but I love the 10’s.
I got an urge to turn a late evening walk into a 5k. About one-third of the way through, the muscles on the inside of the thigh started to hurt. About two thirds in, I got a mild mellow warm feeling although no euphoria and the pain was reduced rather than eclipsed. Is this a mild/early form of runner’s high?