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> >No argument about good running shoes for the joints but I doubt a
pair
> of quality running shoes would have helped the person who keeled over
> in the half marathon.
> __
>
> i'll bite and take issue with that. if the 13.1 mile would have been
> less physically demanding for her...even slightly....i think she
could
> have made that final 100 yards and finished the race and be
> alive.....and yes...her personal threshold point may have never have
> been reached with the right shoe.
If I recall, the news article said that they started working on her at
that point and she passed away so who knows if 100 yards from the
finish was the point of no return. Maybe it was 150 yards from the
finish line. Maybe it was a quarter mile. Maybe it was a half mile.
Pure speculation.
>
> For example...I'm not sure but does a Nike Shox shoe retrun more
energy
> than a standard sole shoe? What about a Z-coil shoe? I know Spira
> boast of having 80%+ energy return in their running shoes. I may be
> wrong but i believe a typical running shoe returns about 15%-20%
> generally...or there abouts? it then becomes an equation of physics
> and i gotta believe when the smoke clears....the spira shoe gets her
> that final 100 yards and alive.
>
> http://www.spirafootwear.com/
Pure speculation but I see your point. Footware can make a difference
in races. Reminds me of a guy who when explaining what size spikes he
wore on a dirt track said to count the number of steps in a quarter
mile and imagine if he lost just a quarter inch more per stride than
the next guy. Adds up.
> >No argument about good running shoes for the joints but I doubt a
pair
> of quality running shoes would have helped the person who keeled over
> in the half marathon.
> __
>
> i'll bite and take issue with that. if the 13.1 mile would have been
> less physically demanding for her...even slightly....i think she
could
> have made that final 100 yards and finished the race and be
> alive.....and yes...her personal threshold point may have never have
> been reached with the right shoe.
If I recall, the news article said that they started working on her at
that point and she passed away so who knows if 100 yards from the
finish was the point of no return. Maybe it was 150 yards from the
finish line. Maybe it was a quarter mile. Maybe it was a half mile.
Pure speculation.
>
> For example...I'm not sure but does a Nike Shox shoe retrun more
energy
> than a standard sole shoe? What about a Z-coil shoe? I know Spira
> boast of having 80%+ energy return in their running shoes. I may be
> wrong but i believe a typical running shoe returns about 15%-20%
> generally...or there abouts? it then becomes an equation of physics
> and i gotta believe when the smoke clears....the spira shoe gets her
> that final 100 yards and alive.
>
> http://www.spirafootwear.com/
Pure speculation but I see your point. Footware can make a difference
in races. Reminds me of a guy who when explaining what size spikes he
wore on a dirt track said to count the number of steps in a quarter
mile and imagine if he lost just a quarter inch more per stride than
the next guy. Adds up.