Yah, for me, I would say I walk with more of a heel strike with shoes. Barefoot, it's a softer landing. On rough surfaces barefoot, it's flat or midfoot, kind of reaching.See walking with a heel strike hurts for me. Way to jarring on my body. I tend to walk with a midfoot strike at normal paces. Only times I walk with a heel strike are when I walk faster than 3 mph, in which case it actually feels more natural to just run/jog. The other times I walk with heel strike is in shoes. For some reason shoes feel easier to walk that way, even most minshoes.
You doing this Abide?
Until you forget to actively swing, which I do after about 30 seconds.
If you have trouble with focus on a long distance run wear a colored wrist band and associate with the task you want to remember, in your case arm swinging.
So when ever the band catches your attention you will be reminded of the task.
It's not 100% infallible but a good trick to use when your memory goes south at mile 20.
I often have bands associated with happy memories to help through the tough bits, it's amazing how a little distraction can switch things around.
Is there an ideal cadence/stride rate actually? Just discovered mine is 120/min walking (and (today) 188 running). Maybe part of the answer (and the next question probably) can be found here?
Edit: makes me think I count from one to seven to stay in the right 'speedzone' and stay focused. Maybe counting helps? (No ultrarunner here)
Didn't read the full article, but isn't efficient the same as 'feels good' (or 'feels least bad' for the current state I'm in)? 120 feels like pretty fast te me, but also light and easy etc etcIts a good question, according to that article an efficient speed is 5k/hour so if each step was 0.75M then 111/min.
Didn't read the full article, but isn't efficient the same as 'feels good' (or 'feels least bad' for the current state I'm in)? 120 feels like pretty fast te me, but also light and easy etc etc
What's your stride rate then?