The Importance of Recovery Footwear

Do the biggest training load when you are the most rested.

After a week of running in the minimalist shoes, they’d end up injured without understanding why.

an easy running day, rather than a rest day, placed between the two SOS days may actually better stimulate recovery and uphold the routine.

We had also managed to convince ourselves that the injuries we were facing were down to the impact of us hitting the ground and so we had learned to suck ourselves down even further and created a whole industry around footwear designed to protect us against our own poor movement. We had become obsessed with gear and nutrition, with split times and

R&R Endurance athletes pay lip service to this critical topic! R&R means more than sleep—it means taking time in hectic modern life to chill.

Shock absorption is particularly important in marathon running, since the feet of long-distance runners contact the ground an average of 10,000 times per hour, absorbing between two and seven times their body weight with each strike.