CHOOSE sneakers

 Can not say that about shoes that appear on the Russian market, not at all.   If you have a computer, the time and the desire, then, after wandering through the pages of major sports equipment center shops and on the Internet, you will be able to find a lot of useful information. If you are still reading in English, it has a seasonal viewing Anglophone racing magazines. There is another inexhaustible mine of information - a popular opinion.   however a clear picture of how to choose running shoes, not so easy.

Despite the abundance of facts, information in Russian is very scattered.   Western magazines too much on companies, advertisers and try as far as possible to keep my opinions to myself, beyond a mere description of the novelties of the season.   Popular opinion also contains a hefty element of art and obviously not keep up experiencing a selfish creative itch engineers and managers of many companies producing shoes. Talking to many skiers, we found that the issue fairly launched and it is time to amend it, to the extent of our ability, some clarity.    

So, to start, a few quotes from conversations with acquaintances skiers on their sneakers.

"I am   unhappy with my ASICS running shoes. "

On the question of what kind of model, firms ASICS question, my friend could not answer.

"I decided not to scrimp and took the brunt of the model heaped sneakers:" ASICS Gel Kayano ". When Meryl - liked. Started running - dube dubem. "

"Two guys knew about my well of adding sneakers" Mizuno Wave Rider ". Took to precisely these same. After running - began to hurt their knees. "

And here's a quote from a conversation with the coach: "How to choose running shoes? It's very simple: our team is running in the " Adidas ". We have a contract with this company. "

All our interlocutors' mistake in recipes, "each in his own way.  What mistakes they made ​​and how to avoid them? This is something we want to talk.

For a start let us imagine that yesterday you made a quick interval work, say, 3x2 km speed skating, and now you have decided to run quietly in the same ridge of 15-20 km. If the temperature and snow conditions will be the same as yesterday, there is no particular reason not to use for today's work the same skis on which you ran yesterday. The speed at which you are going to run most of your distance, generally will not affect the choice of skis. There is a racing ski for classic and skating styles, for warm and cold weather, but there are no special cross-country ski for high speed, medium and slow.

With running shoes is quite different: there are certain types of "smooth" studless shoes specifically designed for a long run ( DistanceTrainers ), fast workouts ( fast Trainers ) and competition ( racing Flats ). The first two in the Russian sports colloquially referred to as "sneakers", the third - " marafonkami . " Stand out two other types of studless running shoe: Running on trails and cross-country competitions. About them we say a few words later.

So, we transfer our situation to run.   Suppose I marathoner who made ​​exactly the same job as the hypothetical skier, only running.And if I used the interval of competitive running shoes, or at least, the "fast" shoes, for quiet a long workout I wear sneakers slower category.               

Now a bit of theory. Sneakers are classified according to two main criteria: by its functional purpose and in accordance with biomechanical factors. The above example illustrates the division   in terms of function. Several simplified picture, we have reduced the classification for clarity on this topic in the table. Along with Russian names of certain categories in the table are the corresponding English terms. This is to ensure that experienced in English reader to sort out the English-language reviews of running shoes.

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