FEET - Injury prevention and treatment with John Vonhof
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
One of your most important tools as a runner is your feet. You need to take care of them or your training/race may be foiled. John Vonhof literally wrote the book on how to take care of your feet: "Fixing Your Feet". This book is now in the FIFTH edition! John joins The Nation to discuss the basic principles of foot care:
- How you can have healthy & happy feet
- Footwear
- Insoles
- Gaiters
- Blister prevention and treatment
- What to keep in a foot care kit
- Taping your feet
You can learn more by visiting his website HERE.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about Petzl. |
| 0:10.1 | Let's talk about Petzl, Scott. |
| 0:11.6 | You know, I was surprised when we interviewed Jared Campbell recently that that was his |
| 0:18.3 | torch of choice when he ran Barclay Marathons. |
| 0:22.0 | Why would you be surprised about that? |
| 0:23.8 | I'm not surprised at all. |
| 0:25.3 | Let's think at the attributes of that torch has over every other lighting. |
| 0:30.1 | Well, if you think about why that course is so much different, there's no trail marking. |
| 0:36.2 | So you've got to be looking up and memorizing the terrain even at night to know where you |
| 0:42.6 | are, be able to look down at your compass and not be blinded by the reflection to read |
| 0:48.8 | a compass and then look up and have complete visibility. |
| 0:52.4 | So you're talking seven lumen, all of a sudden 350 plus lumen and without touching the |
| 0:58.2 | torch itself. |
| 0:59.2 | It's good. |
| 1:00.2 | It has that reactive lighting that adjusts depending on where you're looking. |
| 1:05.4 | Well, you know, for me, and I'm not an orantering guy, but when I look forward and I'm looking |
| 1:10.0 | for a trail marking, perhaps a ribbon, maybe a reflective tape, I could, I would appreciate |
| 1:17.5 | that kind of illumination. |
| 1:19.5 | Give me 300 plus so that that reflective tape calls to me. |
| 1:24.9 | So Sally McRae has gone out and run with us a couple of times and we've let her use |
| 1:28.9 | our petsel torches and she came back and said, guys, hook me up. |
| 1:34.9 | I need a torch. |
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