Originally Posted by
Rowan
Oh OK, all those real sportspeople running laps as preseason training in team games, and playing all season on grass, artificial and real, must be in for a bad injury time.
Let alone the track and field athletes who would boycott an event run on asphalt.
Trust me, the majority of people running on MUPs wouldn't have a clue about the science of running, much less about running on their forefoot, a trend that started with athletics and the use of spikes on running shoes.
Wrong all the African long distance runners have been running barefoot for years, with little injury. While us Americans were running on cushy shoes always injured.
A football team training a couple of laps around the track is not the same as a runner going 50 miles or more a week, you are comparing apples to oranges. Running on grass to train for a marathon wouldnt work, you would be injured before the race.
Almost every marathon is run on concrete and asphalt , I dont what planet you are living on.
I am a former long distance runner finished Marathons and hundreds of smaller races.
By the way go look up the health of former football players, many can barely walk after 45 years old.