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Twitter Updates – 09/22/2012
Tweet Running is a passion, a chore, a necessity, and a source or community. Despite all of these things the dictionary says that running is “fast movement: rapid movement on foot, with long strides and both feet momentarily off the ground”. Sounds like skipping or kangaroo jumps to me. Well regardless of what the dictionary thinks I am doing some research into runners and running and am collecting a little bit of data. The end product of the research is still forming, in the interim I would appreciate your insights into what running is by either responding to this 1 minute survey… http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3KJWYKB I promise it is super short – 10 multiple choice questions! Then go on to the most interesting tweets from the week Is $MSFT pissing off Valve a good move – http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/09/three-interesting-revelations-about-valve-in-nyt-profile/ As … Read entire article »
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The Definition of Running (Part 3 of 3)
Tweet Part1, Part2, and all the others are on my Run Your Age blog – definitely should be read in order According to research by a group of researchers at Harvard, a natural running gait consists of one that includes a forefoot or mid foot landing. This landing style is one that naturally absorbs the impact resulting in a body that does not have to deal with the impact. Examining the modern running shoes themselves, it is easy to see a large cushioned heel which promotes an aft foot landing. This aft foot landing allows the shoe to do several things, including align the foot throughout the stroke, reduce or remove pronation, and provide a level of comfort on the ground. These changes to the landing are counter-intuitive to how … Read entire article »
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The Definition of Running (Part 2 of 3)
Tweet If you haven’t read The Definition of Running (Part 1 of 3) – I recommend it before reading this post along with the others on my RunYourAge blog… Picking up from where we left off last time,beyond the skeleton changes and the changes to the muscles and tendons as a result of the skeletal changes, there are some interesting aspects of the feet specifically that make what we know as running possible. With so much obvious advancement of the human body, why is it that there remain so many different opinions of what running is and means? Our bodies have evolved into running machines. There is a wealth of modern evidence to support this, look at all of the different types of running and the different distances that we humans go. … Read entire article »
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The Definition of Running (Part 1 of 3)
Tweet This series is a cross post from one of my other blogs that is all about running (www.runyourage.com). I am working on getting to running as many miles as I am old – which may mean that I never get there as I get older every year. I think I’ll be able to add miles faster than years though and eventually get there. Anyway – I particularly enjoyed researching and writing this stuff and wanted to offer it to everyone (even if you aren’t a runner)… enjoy (link to original) Running, or some form of running has been around since the dawn of man. It has been the basis of our transportation, the measure that other modes of transportation were initially compared against, and it continues today to be a method … Read entire article »
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