Running shoes
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[quote name='aucklandwarlord']<br />
They were talking about an Aussie runner, someone Mottram from memory that went through 44 pairs of running shoes last year. Very nice if youre sponsored i spose.<br />
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Easy for him to get sponsorship too - he's a white guy who regularly beats Kenyans over distance! :nta -
Cheers for the tips fellas, look like I may have to bite the bullet and actually buy a decent pair instead of the avias I bought from the two years ago.I run 4 to 5 times a week so this,<br />
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[quote] was reading an article in alpha (some aussie sports mag, good read though) that reckons if youre running every day its ideal to two or three pairs of shoes that you rotate. Apparently after youve been for a run you need leave the shoes for 24-48 hours to decompress back to normal before you run in them again. They were talking about an Aussie runner, someone Mottram from memory that went through 44 pairs of running shoes last year. Very nice if youre sponsored i spose.[/quote]<br />
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was interesting.Any I dea how far you have to run before it becaomes an issue?Acoording to the link that Paekakboys posted I do 6 km each sessionTelecom upgraded my phone a couple of months ago and it had an mp3 player in it.Made running a whole lot more enjoyable , one of these days by Pink Floyd is the best running song so far. -
Mottram is a 5000m specialist jegga - he does it in 12:55.76 :nta Not bad going.... He does other distances too:<br />
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mottram"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mottram[/url]<br />
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6km? I reckon if you're running every day you could get away with one good pair of shoes. If you were pounding out 10km a day then I reckon you'd probably think about a second pair. -
Asics are excellent but my favourite runners are Mizuno. I've found these two to be the best (and most expensive <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />) for me over the past few years. In terms of life span, a podiatrist told me to rotate two pairs and throw them out after three months. I run 5x per week, 9-10km each time on concrete, and am 85kg. Shoes still look good after this time, but you are thrashing the same parts everytime you run.Â
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have run marathons in both Asics and Brooks, and have to say I defo lean towards the asics. seem to have a better cushioning in them..<br />
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best thing to do is find out what type you need (over pronate, neutral etc etc) then wait till a long weekend and go into rebel sport and get a pair 25% off. You can't beat it...<br />
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I use the asics 2110 - which has been replaced now with the 2120 - which is about 20% lighter and i reckon that's a bloody good shoe.<br />
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don't buy asics kayanos - just for posers who don't run. Asics just chuck everything into that shoe and at the end of the year whatever people thought was good they put into their 'proper' shoes..<br />
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I replace mine every 400 k's, tho some people say every 800k's. depends a lot on your weight of course. the 'decompression' thing is true - but you're not doing loads of time on them so shouldn't be an issue. -
I saw something on TV abnout the making of running shoes - might have been asics, can't remember. Anyway, the padding stuff for your heal - they cut a foot square piece of it, and then dropped an egg onto it from two stories up, and it didn't break - all the impact going out sideways as opposed to straight down - it was wicked!
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[quote name='MrBartMan']<br />
they cut a foot square piece of it, and then dropped an egg onto it from two stories up, and it didn't break - all the impact going out sideways as opposed to straight down - it was wicked!<br />
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:-k Would make an awfully big shoe though....<br />
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