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http://www.yourrunning.com/blog-first_run_in_a_revolution By now I had hoped to have interviewed Danny Abshire, man behind the revolutionary Newton running shoes and be inundating you with technical detail, the story of the seven patents behind them, a podcast and so on... but things have got in the way. Day one when I turned up at Newton Running so did the container truck with 6,000 pairs of shoes inside: the first delivery. So instead of talking to Danny I pitched in and helped unload. "I'll come back tomorrow", I told him. Day two, I'm tired, short of sleep and have a one-hour hilly run on the schedule. I'm figuring I'll do a couple of miles and if I'm still not feeling good, call it a day, then head over to interview Danny. But there was a catch. I set out to break in the new pair of Newton Gravity trainers I'd picked up fresh off the truck. So half an hour goes by and I'm feeling good. I head straight up the grassy side of the steepest hill in sight. Descended. Up the next one. Hm. Head out and up on the road. Then down a long road section. Still feeling good...well, long story short, my feet and legs felt so comfortable than instead of doing a hour or less, I stayed out for TWO hours! Too late to go and get the story. When I phoned Danny to apologise he wouldn't have any of it. "I'd much rather you had that experience than came and talked to me", he said. "Now you've seen for yourself what the shoes are all about. That's just the response we've been getting from our elites. They say they can train longer without trashing their legs." Yes, by then I was raving about the shoes. They actually let forefoot runners like me -- run. Without any interference. In fact, I get more of a sensation of "barefoot" running in these than I do in my Nike Frees. But the outstanding finding was that these shoes do somehow soak up impact without feeling like a pair of foam mattresses. Your feet can still get proprioceptive feedback from the ground. We then segued into a technical explanation of WHY this is so. I'll save it. Just let's say that there is more technology crammed into these lightweight shoes than you can shake a stick at. | |
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