Part 5 - Post #7

Painful Truth No. 1: The Best Shoes Are the Worst

RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland’s University of Bern.

Painful Truth No. 2: Feet Like a Good Beating

AS FAR back as 1988, Dr. Barry Bates, the head of the University of Oregon’s

Biomechanics/Sports Medicine Laboratory, gathered data that suggested that beat-up running shoes are safer than newer ones. In the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, Dr. Bates and his colleagues reported that as shoes wore down and their cushioning thinned, runners gained more foot control.

FINAL PAINFUL TRUTH: Even Alan Webb Says “Human Beings Are Designed to Run Without shoes”

Before Alan Webb became America’s greatest miler, he was a flat-footed frosh with awful form. But his high school coach saw potential, and began rebuilding Alan from-no exaggeration-the ground up.

Based on my personal experience, I agreed with these three painful truths though it sounds very strange to some people and someone might ask for the purpose of having running shoes. However, I believe that people would change their mind after they realize the true benefit of running on barefoot. Running on barefoot is actually having so much more benefits than people could imagine. Running on barefoot could reduce the percentage of getting injury and make you ankle stronger. I also highly agree with “Painful Truth No. 2: Feet Like a Good Beating”. In order to make new shoes comfortable to run, it takes time to break down and makes your feet get used to the shoes.

Post 6 - Post #9

Jackrabbits are known as bit different. Jackrabbits are born with a big program: unlike other running animals, they don’t have reserve artillery. They don’t have antler or horns or hard-kicking hooves, and they don’t travel in the protection of herds. While David was watching Jackrabbit, he thought about what could slow you down instead of thinking about what makes you faster. He came up with the answer that how fast it could keep going until it found a hole to dive down.

I think this is really important point to make. If you are a runner or playing any sports that require much running, it is important to know that running is not only out the speed, but it is also about endurance. For example, playing soccer is also requires much running, but you have to a stamina to maintain you game speed for 90 minutes. 

Part 5 - Post #8

Evolution Running is Ken’s new running style. Coincidentally, two other barefoot-style running methods were popping up around the same time. “Chi Running,” based on the balance and minimalism of tai chi, began taking off in San Francisco, while Dr. Nicholas Romanov, a Russian exercise physiologist based in Florida, was teaching his POSE Method. But a simple system isn’t necessarily simple to learn, as I found out when Ken Mierke filmed me in action. My mind was registering easy, light, and smooth, but the video showed that author was still bobbing up and down while bending forward like he was leaning into a hurricane.

The basic concept of running is easy to learn. However, runners have been developed their style of running to be faster without using much energy.

My style of running is also have been developed and still developing. I believe the style of running actually affects huge part of running and it can make slow people a lot faster.

Part 4 - post #6

Caballo was stronger, healthier, and faster than he’d ever been in his life. His plan for a race between Americans and the Tarahumara is to use his toughness. The weather gets really cold at night, too cold for a skinny guy from California. The quote “as a test, he tried running a trail through the mountains that takes three days on horse back; he did it in seven hours.” (p. 79 Christopher McDougall) He also invited one runner who is with the right spirit, real champions. His name is Scott Jurek.

Scott Jurek is known as one of the ultra runner in the country and he has peculiar habits. At the start of every race, he always let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he’d roll in the dirt like a hyperactive hound. Then he’d get up, brush himself off, and vanish back to Seattle until it was time for his war cry to echo through the dark. Until D-2 weeks, no one did not know what Scott was up to, so word of his plans only began to spread a little more than a month before the race.

When the American runners convened in El Paso before traveling to Mexico, the author had no idea if he was leading a platoon or hucking solo. I checked into the airport Hilton, made arrangements for a ride across the border at five the next morning, then doubled back to the airport. The runners were pretty much waste their time.

Jenn “Mookie” Shelton and Billy “Bonehead” Barnett, a pair of twenty-one-year-old hotshots who’d been electrifying the East Coast ultra circuit. Jenn and Billy had only started running two years before, but Billy was already winning some of the thoughest 50ks on the East Coast, while “The young and beautiful Jenn Shelton,” as the ultrarace blogger Joey Anderson called her, had just clocked one of the fastest 100-mile times in the country.

Barefoot Ted seemed to be the Bruce Wayne of barefoot running, the wealthy heir of a California amusement-park fortune. Barefoot Ted believed we could abolish foot injuries by throwing away our Nikes, and he was willing to prove it on himself.