Peter patella shows what the runners of today need - or need to believe. A stroll through the colorful world of expensive equipment running.
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Sport is not only murder, but in most cases still be very expensive. Gyms and sports clubs happige require contributions. Mountain bikes or road bikes for 1500 euros, the beginner class. And golf, scuba diving and horseback riding in the year cost more anyway, as many of Hartz IV recipients for life.
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Runner in full gear: vast sums for the equipment
When running, it is hardly different. This theory sounds tempting inexpensive: The ability to run is in every one of us, if he is healthy. It takes just a nice route, a bit of motivation, an old training pants and a few dusty sneakers, it's already happening.
So I have in any case before some 25 years ago. At my time it ran in the shoe unit "Samba" a major sporting goods manufacturer. Here's a Schlabbes cotton trousers and a thick sweatshirt. Who emphasis laid on his appearance, had a sweat band around. Eighties flat.
ACHILLES-NEW BOOK
Finally, it is so far: Germany's runners have the perfect excuse for the tedious pace of training to tails. You must first of Achilles-the new book. Germany's funniest amateur runners has its columns to a new piece of forest and meadow run literature zusammengetackert: "Learn to walk without suffering" is available now in a good assortment of ramps and remains in blogs shop. The question "Can you actually run without having to suffer?" Achim normally answered philosophically: "You can, but it is not fun anymore." The 224 pages in the pocketbook is strong Heyne-Verlag and costs 7,95 Euro.
Today is running a popular number one. We need no longer be ashamed of if you know when Hecheln through the forest is seen. At the party SmallTalk issue is the icebreaker. Everyone knows his km cut its tracks, its Trainingspuls. And with the discovery of the sport by better-paid consumer-friendly, the scene changed. Above all the equipment. "Equipment" is in vogue.
Previously presented a pair of sneakers for different sports: running, soccer, indoor sports or even gymnastics. One could even in their leisure wear. Meanwhile, it is unthinkable that the same bounds for multiple purposes. Same shoes now more of a prescription item.
With a bag full of expired slipper, which is essential to determine the operating behavior, going to
Running shoe specialists. The course will take place, that it is high time for at least one new pair. Better would be two or three. Different floor coverings, different weather, and also wants to be trained Fußmuskulatur.
A touch of old people
But before the right shoe is the treadmill analysis. The seller wire (Marathon best time 2:41 hours) fachsimpelt on training and competition, after intensive consultation is the perfect footwear found. The next race is coming! But why feel the alleged violator miracle on the first round of training just as hard and stiff at? Anyway, just ignore it.
If you work from the ankle upwards, falls quickly to the next innovation in the eye: Sooner runners wore white cotton socks that are in the 10-pack purchased. After washing, they were either too narrow, too short or the federal government ausgeleiert. Now, there are socks that are more expensive than running past some days. The amateur athlete takes on 50-euro-compression stockings, which look like a hospital or nursing home.
Just a few years ago I would have myself in the living room ashamed, a barrel to wear trousers. Today, the tight-fitting stretch-leg dress constant companion on the practice round. Even before the colorful designs, I do not shrink back.
Grotesk is it in the accessories. If you come in winter to meet people that look like a mix of miners, and American Autobahnmeisterei decorated Christmas trees, please be lenient. Usually, this is a cackling ladies sitting in the evening Nordic walking tour.
GPS Klotz leg
Few men are better those who believe that every step is done by means of electronic data must be documented. After the run they squat in front of the computer and try to connect the interface between the PC and pulse-computer with the GPS speedometer built on ankles. Finally, the Pulskurve its four-kilometer Läufchens printed and in the training kit will be filed.
For four years, he writes his columns, is now a cult Achim Achilles runners online - with his web-page www.Achim Achilles.de. The portal provides the millions of runners in this info, tips and fun - for beginners as professionals run. The vibrant community of runners exchanged last wisdom of half a dozen expert advice for free. Always according to the motto of the best-selling author Achilles: "Running, suffer, laugh, live."
These runners can be seen on the black block GPS on the shoe. In addition, an arm angles it odd to - in order to run the computer on your wrist, the current data to control. A arythmic beeps that her heart rate too high or too low. If anything they hear. Indeed, this kind of happy runners while an iPod with a virtual trainer to run the ears, which always has something new bids intervals.
These types of runners seem constantly from starvation or dehydration imminent threat. Or both. Anders is not to explain why they elastic belts, called "Fuel Belts, calorie-rich foods and beverages carry reserves.
And in rations as if they were a week-long survival training in Siberia that could have been before.
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