- We're talking racing flats versus trainers, versus ...
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When I was at my race pace of around four ...
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That's shedding for the day.
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Morning trainiacs.
Very, very purposeful run there.
19.05 kilometers, we're talking somewhere around 12 miles,
in one hour, 30 minutes, and 14 seconds.
In that run I did four times 10 minutes at race pace.
4:30 per kilometer, and went okay.
Went pretty good.
I didn't mind it at all.
Wasn't however, an unscathed kind of run.
Look at this.
Oh boy.
Yeah.
Brand new running shoes.
The On running Cloudflow, Cloudtech?
I think Cloudflow.
Went for the first run with them yesterday on the treadmill
and it wore a little bit of rough spot in my heel.
Then today, it's not to say I don't like them actually.
I'm a big fan of the cloud runners.
Actually, you know what?
Give me a few weeks.
I'll do a full review on these.
That actually gets me thinking.
You know what we're gonna do today?
We're gonna do, why I like these.
These are racing flats.
These are really aggressive.
And why I also like trainers, which are not so aggressive.
Then also when and why I like really big built up shoes,
and what the differences are.
When you should use them.
When you shouldn't use them.
Who should use them.
So we're talking racing flats versus trainers,
versus built up, maximal running shoes.
Okay?
After a smoothie and some bandaids.
Alright trainiacs, alright.
Alright.
Let's talk about racing flats, versus your primary trainers,
versus your maximal, built up shoes.
How we're gonna do this is very good lookingly.
Eh, eh?
How good does that look?
Okay, so I like to use all these types of shoes
for different purposes.
Your racing flats, these are really light.
These are coming in anywhere between
about four and seven ounces.
They're called racing flats because
they tend to be a really low drop from the heel to the toe.
Maybe a couple millimeters.
There's also not a lot of cushioning underneath the foot.
Like this is the closest you can get
to wearing a sock while running.
Why a lot of, say, five K runners, track runners,
really short distance runners like to use these,
are because they're so light,
and because you can really get up on the balls of your foot.
You can get up and really open up your stride very easily.
Like today, what I was finding is that
when I was at my race pace of around four ...
You got something to say, Grace?
When I was at my race pace of around four and a half minutes
per kilometer, I had a hard time just
keeping that with these runners.
However these runners allowed me to very easily get up
to the 4:15, 4:10.
And that felt really good.
I could feel the road really well.
It's easy to get up and really
open up your stride with these.
However, the downside to them is that
there's not a lot of cushioning, so it beats up your body
quite a bit, and they tend not to last very long.
Primarily what I like to train in
is what are called main trainer shoes.
These tend to have a weight anywhere in between
about seven and nine ounces.
If they are a minimal shoe the drop from the heel
to the toe might be about the same as a racing flat.
But you've got a much more built up heel and forefoot.
Whereas this might be anywhere between
about 10 and 15 millimeters, underneath your foot.
This is more like 15 to 20, 22 thereabout.
These tend to be really good all around shoes.
If you're looking for only one shoe,
I would recommend a main trainer.
Often if you get a good shoe with a really nice
tread pattern, it can do your off-road,
it can do your gravel, it can do your road,
it can do your track workouts.
Whereas the racing flat is really only good for your
speed work, your racing, your track workouts.
You don't wanna be putting in a ton of miles on these.
Whereas you can put in a ton of miles on these.
Depending on the manufacturer,
these might last anywhere from 150 to 250 or 300 miles.
Whereas these racing flats tend to be somewhere around 100.
Maybe even less.
There are some racing flats out there
that I think you use them for one marathon.
That's it.
Throw them away.
These are easier on your body.
These are easier to put in long miles on.
This is your bread and butter shoe.
Then we get into these maximal shoes.
The Hokas.
Now, there are more than one company now
doing these maximal shoes.
These tend to be, these are the Clifton threes.
These are a little bit rare because these come in
I think around eight ounces.
But maximal shoes tend to be like nine ounces plus.
Nine ounces to somewhere around 13 ounces.
The heel, I believe on these is around 27 millimeters
and the forefoot is about 24.
So I'm still not getting a huge heel to toe drop
but I've got a ton of cushioning underneath the shoe.
Lately I actually haven't been using these at all.
Granted, when I did the review of them,
I said that you can use them for trail,
you can use them for track,
you can use them for your speed work.
But I just find that I don't really want to
because there's so much going on
with these built up, maximal shoes that I find
I can't get into a natural gait.
I can't feel the ground.
I can't feel the turns.
I feel like I'm running on smushy clouds.
And it interferes with my body's ability
to move the way that it wants to move.
Now, granted, when I was using these,
I really liked it on recovery days.
I liked it on days where I was already beat up.
But what I'm finding now, is if I manage my running
and my build up better, I don't really have that many runs
that I am beat up going into it.
So did I like these when I tried them out?
Yeah, but I sort of look at the longevity of a shoe,
the usefulness of a shoe, the broad application of a shoe.
Basically as simply as, do I keep going back to it?
And I didn't.
No, I still probably only have about 75 miles in this.
The nice thing about these built up, maximal shoes
is that because there's so much cushioning,
there's so much more cushioning to take that pounding,
they last a long time.
I've had three pairs of Hokas and I didn't max out
on using them even once.
I just ended up getting new models to try
and that was how the old ones went away.
Now ...
Now, we gotta go put a shed together,
because tomorrow is garage tear down day.
New Triathlon Taren headquarters is well underway.
So ugly out there.
You notice how we got lights on midday?
Just miserable out there.
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Battery died.
Last panel up.
How do I get up?
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Like a ring tailed lemur.
Alright, that's shedding for the day.
Good shedding with you.