Running Shoes Changed How Humans Run

[Isaiah 6:8]

Know what's strange? I've always run on my toes. Toe hits the ground first. I used to be really fast when I was a boy.

Back when I was a wee lass, I ran on my toes too! It just feels so much more normal. But then again, I find it weird wearing shoes (personal quirk ) and I take them off as much as possible. I also can't drive with them on.

In the summer I prefer barefoot. Winter with the 3+feet of snow, no way...

And you were a wee lass?really!

[~candice~]

And you were a wee lass?really!

Does 'wee lass' mean something different in America???

This makes me ponder about those women who wear super high heeled shoes. I see them on my way to work, they need help to walk up and down the stairs. Looks like they are running on their toes too! Gives the calves a terrible strain and isn't good for the back.

99% of the time I wear thongs, and they cause you to drag your feet a bit too because the back part kinda hangs down. It's more of a shuffle than a walk lol, so that they stay on your feet.

[Isaiah 6:8]

And you were a wee lass?really!

Does 'wee lass' mean something different in America???

This makes me ponder about those women who wear super high heeled shoes. I see them on my way to work, they need help to walk up and down the stairs. Looks like they are running on their toes too! Gives the calves a terrible strain and isn't good for the back.

99% of the time I wear thongs, and they cause you to drag your feet a bit too because the back part kinda hangs down. It's more of a shuffle than a walk lol, so that they stay on your feet.

Yes it means the same thing, Just teasing. You still are a wee lass.

[ayin jade]

99% of the time I wear thongs, and they cause you to drag your feet a bit too because the back part kinda hangs down. It's more of a shuffle than a walk lol, so that they stay on your feet.

I wear thong sandals all the time andy (when Im not in moccasins) and I never shuffle my feet. My toes grip the sandal as I walk.

I also ran barefoot in my younger days. I never wore any sort of running shoe. In fact those reeboks/ nikes etc feel like clumps of cement on my feet. I cant wear them lol. I used to be quite a gazelle in my youth. And I ran landing on my toes and springing off of them.

(I learned the hard way that I am no longer a gazelle. A few years ago I tried to jump across an irrigation canal, like I used to be able to easily. Boy that was an ugly landing lol.)

[~candice~]

99% of the time I wear thongs, and they cause you to drag your feet a bit too because the back part kinda hangs down. It's more of a shuffle than a walk lol, so that they stay on your feet.

I wear thong sandals all the time andy (when Im not in moccasins) and I never shuffle my feet. My toes grip the sandal as I walk.

Maybe I'm just a special kind of lazy .

[forrestkc]

If you run on your heels, then you probably are running in the wrong kind of shoes. A lot of people, especially if you have low arches, need motion control / stability shoes. (high arches need cushioning shoes). I run over a 1000 miles a year. If you run a lot, you have to run on the balls of your feet or you are going to constantly be struggling with overuse injuries, especially shin splints and hip trouble.

Humans are born runners. No animal in the entire animal kingdom is as good of a distance runner as humans are. Prior to the invention of bow and arrows and effective spears (they came about around 70,000 years ago), humans hunted in groups by running prey down over several miles and clubbing it to death. Humans are terrible sprinters compared to many animals, but we can run farther and longer than anything else alive. Think about it this way, caribou, the animal with the longest land migration on earth, on average travel 800 miles a year. In comparison, world class ultra-runner Reza Baluchi recently ran 11,500 miles around the perimeter of the United States in 202 days (that is an average of 57 miles a day). He just started a record breaking run around the world and will run through 195 countries.

[Matthitjah]

The earth and human beings are over 70,000 years old?

[nebula]

Ummm . . . please . . . we don't need another "evolution" debate . . . OK?

Anyway, having run cross country in high school, it would have been interesting to have experimented with this - to see if running on my toes produced better results. But my running days are long past.

[Matthitjah]

Ummm . . . please . . . we don't need another "evolution" debate . . . OK?

Anyway, having run cross country in high school, it would have been interesting to have experimented with this - to see if running on my toes produced better results. But my running days are long past.

I'm just messing with Forrest.

[Blien]

I know the olympic runners who participate in the 100m race ALWAYS run on their toes. When they are running it actually looks like they are running on air! But anyway, the reason they do this is because it's faster... burns a lot of energy though, compared with heel running.