Shod shock indicator

JosephTree

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Bless it, today was my first truly barefoot run (a little over a mile on pavement plus about 5 more in VFF Bikilas) of the year, as the temps popped up to the high 60's (F) this afternoon. It was also my first shirtless run.

An interesting part of the run was when a well lycra-ed and conventionally shod young woman passed me and I could see so clearly the shock of each step as it reverberated across her posterior. I was lucky to be close enough to watch this phenomenon for about a mile until I passed her. Fascinating!

She asked me about my Vibrams and I mentioned how running in them, and even moreso barefoot, encourages a smooth gait, but I said nothing about how I could tell that her gait was a bit bouncy.
 
Fat = water = waves, I guess.

I am also often taken up with scientific observations on my runs.

JT, maybe you could collaborate with Bret "the glute guy" Contreras on his important research sometime.
"Shod shock indicator"

sounds like a Captain Beefheart song.


Holy Cow! You've heard of Captain B., aka Don Van Vliet? ...but yes, I can almost hear it...
 
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An interesting part of the run was when a well lycra-ed and conventionally shod young woman passed me and I could see so clearly the shock of each step as it reverberated across her posterior. I was lucky to be close enough to watch this phenomenon for about a mile until I passed her. Fascinating!
And if you were coming from the other way, you would have seen the bounce in a whole different light.
 
TJ, yes, a whole different light, maybe, ...but...!

- the expanse of adiposities under uniform tension provided a much broader palette for the seisms to play across;

- the position of the "palette" was perfectly located at the top of the shock columns;

- and, as Chris noted, my opportunity to observe (without looking like a creepy old geezer) was much of longer duration.
 
Ha! You guys crack me up.