SPRINT Issue 63 - Spring 2018
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Running Myths & Misunderstandings<br />
Geoff Robberts<br />
The chances are that if you are reading this article you may very well be<br />
interested in improving your running by being able to run further, faster, or<br />
both.<br />
Over the past twenty years or so, a highly profitable industry has grown<br />
around our natural desire to get fitter and faster. Unfortunately, some of the<br />
advice and trends that have been followed are unnecessary or<br />
counterproductive.<br />
My only qualification for commenting on this is 70,000 miles and thirty five<br />
years of hard won experience, so I would like to share my views on the<br />
following:-<br />
1. You do not need to carry water with you on training runs. If you make sure<br />
that you are properly hydrated at all other times, your body should be able to<br />
cope. In races, the only time I would take water was in a marathon and only<br />
then so that I didn’t have to waste time at crowded drink stations.<br />
2. Ignore shoe manufactures who tell you to replace your trainers after 500<br />
miles. Oddly, the more you use a shoe, the more miles you will get out of it.<br />
This is because EVA midsoles deteriorate in UV light and using them helps<br />
keep them supple.<br />
3. This leads nicely on into the price of shoes. £140 for a pair of trainers!!!<br />
Somebody is having a laugh because there have been numerous studies<br />
which have proved that you don’t get any more injuries in a pair of neutral,<br />
lightly cushioned £50 shoes than you do in the latest all singing all dancing<br />
top of the range.<br />
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