Hello again, fellow runners!

For my ninth tip, I choose a provocative title to convey an essential notion: the direct causal link between the weight of your feet and your performances. More precisely, the weight that you carry at the end of your legs.

Regardless of your age, distance and level, when you run, you obey the same universel law: the more weight you carry, the more oxygen you consume to go forward. However, it is very difficult to lose weight, and it is not necessarily a good thing, in running, anyway.

Especially since the weight you carry does not have the same energy cost everywhere. Since you must swing it forward and backward with every step, the weight of your shoes costs 10 times more to propel than the one you carry at the waist.

Hence the importance to lose weight in your feet first by using the most energy-efficient shoes, namely the lightest models, often the ones with a high minimalist index. Only by running in shoes that are 100 g lighter, you will shave several minutes off your time on a marathon, without any additional effort!

However, if your body is not yet adapted to such lighter shoes, which are generally thinner and more flexible, make sure to take several weeks to progressively integrate them to your routine, by adding one minute per day. This way, you will leave your feet and legs enough time to get stronger and propel you faster and farther with every step.

Happy last weeks of training, and see you soon for my last tip!

Olivier