Thread: Running the Sahara

DIIK, but pronation is:
"To turn or rotate (the foot) by abduction and eversion so that the inner edge of the sole bears the body's weight." And what that is leaves me also absolutely clueless.

So overpronate(d) would likely be too much of this. Frankly, I care less than can be measured in that if I chance to dash across a street one of my knees goes south for a week. The rest of me, being of a northerly bent, has decided that running is for others, only.

As regular pronation is making contact with the heel and rolling through the arch to the ball just below the middle toe, overpronation is when you either contact on the outer edge of the heel and rotate to the big toe or ride the inner portion of you instep throughout the motion. If you supinate, you sort of ride along the outer edge of your foot, and don't make a full transition through the arch. Everyone pronates, as that is the natural motion used in walking or running. People with high arches tend to supinate, and people with lower or flat arches tend to overpronate. My overpronation seemed to show itself in a collapse of the arch on my left foot before the end of the cycle, due to an imbalance in my stride. New shoes and some stretching, and I clock high 5's in the mile and about an 19 in the 5k.