Originally Posted by
livedarklions
A lot of runners believe that asphalt is a better surface for running than concrete because it's softer. I find this pretty far-fetched because I really don't believe that asphalt deforms enough to matter, but I'm not a runner.
That's a serious reason people have? What kind of deformation does somebody expect under what, 70kg? If there's enough deformation to actually notice in your joints with that weight I'd expect a car traveling over it to deform the road like sand! Now that reasoning for running on grass I'd buy