BALANCED N MOTION

What are your shoes telling you?

What does the wear patterns on the bottom of your shoes say about your running stride? Those wear patterns can tell you if you are improving or still have a lot of work to do to get to that Holy Grail known as the mid-foot landing.  A couple of years ago, Katherine Dreyer published a blog that had information about wear patterns and what you might want to do correct some of them.  Attached below is the blog and the picture used in the article enlarged for your reference.

http://www.chirunning.com/blog/entry/personality-test-for-runners

https://www.google.com/search?q=running+shoe+wear+pattern+chi+running&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=vJrExdFn5tZO7M%3A

 

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