Running Equipment

There are several choices of delivery of equipment I can help you greatly in your quest for your medal Ironman arrives Trathlon.

SHOES-Of course, well-fitting shoes are a priority. I tried all kinds of shoes you can imagine over the years and have come to this conclusion:

You can train as well and stay injury free like $ 50 shoes that you can in $ 150 dollar shoes. For example, if an output is a new brand of shoes 2005 model on sale for $ 69 and sells new, improved (same shoe) 2006 model for $ 149. Does that mean the old model was not good and hurt your feet? Of course not! To remain competitive, manufacturers must continually make small changes and / or improvements to their products to keep pace with the competition.

The change from one year to another may be simply due to the color or the new lacing system or slightly more accumulation in some parts of the shoe. Sometimes change is really small.

Just go around. See what your background is and try different types of shoes and when you find one that feels just great, fits perfectly and gives you blisters no matter how far you run, so it is --- your shoe on race day. Try to make your choice for a race day shoe the lightest of all your shoes.

Remember: Whatever you do, do not go out and buy fancy shoes for the day of the Ironman, because it is really great. Go to the old shoe that you got there. Do not make changes later.

I heard this story years ago and have never forgotten, and it's just an excellent example of what I speak.

It's 1960 Rome Olympics. An African from Ethiopia shows for games. It is running in the marathon. He has no shoes. He did not train in shoes. He was educated at home by chasing rabbits for miles from his bare feet. A larger shoes distributor Games gave him a new pair of shoes to wear. He put them on. They hurt his feet. He took off. Said: "No, thank you." He ran the marathon barefoot. Twenty miles were on the cobblestones of Rome.

He won the gold medal!

Now, the shoe manufacturer really likes and give shoes to train in the house.

FLASH AHEAD four years for the next Olympic Games -

The rider of Ethiopia is Africa to the Olympics. He is enrolled in the Marathon again. He wears shoes he has trained in the house. They do not harm his feet now.

He won the gold medal! Encore!

his name is Abib Bikila. The first African to win Olympic gold - now they are a dynasty.

The moral of this story is:

If he had worn the shoes for the 1960 Olympics, he not only did not win gold, he would have sacked his feet. Imagine bulbs. He was not accustomed to wearing shoes.

If he had not worn shoes in the 1964 Olympic Games, he not only did not win gold, it would still be sacked his feet. He was not accustomed to bare feet and his feet would not have the same tenacity that the previous Olympic Games.

So I repeat: Go with the shoes you've done a lot of training in. Do not make changes later. When I found a pair of running shoes I loved, I wore their training until they are well broken in. I put these elastic laces lock on them, so I've never had to rebind and put them away. I've worn for five Ironman races. In this last transition, it was like putting on a favorite pair of slippers. I've never had blisters or foot problems. I ran a marathon in 3:34 Ironman in the same shoes.

FUEL BELT I was so happy to see these come on the market. It used to really irritate me a great distance in training with a water bottle on my hip. I just seemed out of balance. For this reason, I never bothered to take a bottle of water on a course run Ironman ..