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ARTist in the spotlight - theboyblunder

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    #62
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    overpronator wrote: »
    I think it was Berlin, I used to work in his lab in Trinity.

    Just looked it up and you are right. It was Berlin.


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    #63
    overpronator
    Registered Users Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭overpronator


    TRR wrote: »
    I was sure it was London. Didn't have an elite number either so started with masses. Have to look that up I was 100% it was London. Fine running regardless.

    Absolutely bowled over when I heard it, he had told me that he ran competitively but I had no idea it was to that level!


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    #64
    theboyblunder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭theboyblunder


    Where did the user name come from?

    When I was a student I worked on a placement in a large pharma company. My first day in the lab I got the tour, and then I was shown this piece of glassware that everybody used everyday. They explained that it took ages to replace if broken, that they only had one left.

    5 mins after I was left alone with it for the first time......

    The next day I had a new nickname.

    Guilty pleasures?
    • Woman
    hahahahahaha are you trying to get me killed :D?

    • Snack
    I'm way too fond of chocolate. Ive also a serious weakness for crisps and cant have them in the house - gone in minutes.

    • Music
    I like all kinds of music (except jazz), but it was never something I was mad into. Tend to prefer older music from the 80s and 90s (a worrying sign at only 38).


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    #65
    theboyblunder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭theboyblunder


    Enjoying this thread, well done in connemara! You talk about having a bad gait so do you use supportive training shoes for the easy stuff or is it minimalist kinvaras all the time and do you think bigger heavier supportive shoes are a help or hindrance to people with less than Kenyan biomechanics!?

    Thanks overpronater.

    I think the type of shoe you wear is important, but not something to obsess about. I use kinvaras all the time now. I have a pair mizuno evo cursoris (I really like these but they dont seem to be popular) but thats it.

    I supinate quite a bit - karate chopping the ground with the outside of my feet. I also midfoot strike. I need neutral shoes with cushioning and without stability features, any shoe which prevents rolling inwards is going to amplify the pressure on the outside of my feet. I also have a hopalong gait arising from operations I had to have when I was an infant, which have left me with significantly different length legs and a slightly unsymmetrical hip.

    Yeah I think people should run in as little shoe as is comfortable and safe. I dont want to open the minimalist can of worms, but I would say that I ran in hattoris (almost no shoe) all last summer without problems. The only reason I stopped is because I was only getting 200 miles out of them.

    The more 'normal' someones gait is, the less they should worry about shoes in my opinion.


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