I see a lot of tendon problems as a result of wearing maximal shoes.

Because for what they give in terms of that impact, they take away in terms of instability,

which is the absolute thing we must try and avoid.

We must try and be a... we have a stable foot, therefore we don't want to create an unstable platform

by putting an unstable shoe underneath it.

The Treflon Show, 111.

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast

presented by Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and today's episode is part two in our two-part

series on running biomechanics with Dr. Tom Hughes from Tri-Mechanics. If you did not already listen to episode 110,

make sure you go and do that first, as this episode will make much more sense if you do,

because you'll have missed a ton of important points that Tom made at the start of the interview otherwise.

And also, I obviously already

introduced Tom in that episode, so I won't do it again here, but we'll jump straight into the

interview or part two of the interview after thanking our sponsors that help keep the podcast up

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