Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
I used to post my nearly-weekly tris over in Addiction. Write up a nice race report and post it there!
Triathlon is not cycling; you don't need should be happy (or not) on your own, not against someone else. You don't get pulled for being down a lap.
Did you make and execute a good plan? Leave it all out on the course? Learn some new things? Then you did great, not pretty good.
The only plan I have is to finish. I want to do as well as I can, but the whole goal is to finish. My plan is pretty general. I swim with my upper body to save my legs for the ride and run. When I ride, I try to only ride at about 90% so I still have something left when I run. The only plan I can say I have for my runs is to just keep my legs moving. Regardless of how fast or slow, how steep or flat, I try to push myself to never walk. On both the ride and run, I try to pick someone out that's faster than me and keep up with them.
Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
That place is a ghost town.
Indeed.
Originally Posted by
base2
What I see a lot of new runners do is high feet, high step, leaping with high arms against the chest or wildly flailing. Sort of like repeatedly re-enacting the overly animated stride the model did for the picture in the fitness advertisement.
The fastest runners conserve energy. Arms bent, wrists about belly-button, waist level with feet traveling a scant inch or 2 off the ground.
What fundamentally changed my stride was switching to zero-drop shoes. The absence of padding in the heel drives a more forward ball of foot type stride. My plantar-fasciitis disappeared. My foot actually grew a full size, my toes spread out & I can now use them almost like fingers. But also importantly the stride became much less impactful. All the helper/stabilizer muscles & other soft tissues/ligaments began strengthen as they were incorporated into the stride.
Those kids with the spring in their step; They're doing it wrong.
Anywho, I'm now inspired to get outside to give it a give it a go. I haven't had a good run in a while now.
Cheers,
base2
What is a "zero drop" shoe? Never heard of that before. As for the other things, I don't run for looks. But I already have big feet. I don't think I would be really happy about them growing any more. Although I definitely think I need to strengthen them. I just don't know how to go about doing that.