Thursday, May 24, 2012

No Turning Back

Having transitioned rather well to minimalist shoes for running, I, out of curiosity and variety, donned my usual running shoe, the Response, and went for a run. It was disastrous! To cut the long story short, I ended up with muscle pains and strains.

I think I'll use my Response for walking around and retire it permanently from running purposes.

Having had this minor episode, I can understand this much - that my running style had adapted more to running in a minimalist shoe (it's running heaven once the transition is made well). So putting on a thickly padded shoe and running in them feels foreign and disjointed in running flow and rhythm.

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