{"id":20262,"date":"2020-07-10T08:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:44:26","slug":"trail-running-for-beginners-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/blog\/trail-running-for-beginners-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Running for Beginners \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few words from the Baur brothers about getting started running \u201cover hill and dale\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trail running is a sports trend that\u2019s booming. More and more people are leaving the roads behind and heading out into nature and onto trails. So what do you do? How do you get started? To answer these questions, pjuractive<\/em> has got hold of Marcus and Matthias Baur<\/a> \u2013 trail runners with plenty of experience in this sport. They reveal everything you need to know about trail running in a few blog posts. First up, it\u2019s how to choose your shoes ?<\/p>\n

First-hand knowledge \u2013 Tips for you from the Baur brothers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"First-handOnce you\u2019ve decided to try trail running, just head to a sports store you trust and buy some shoes with a Gore-Tex membrane, a decent tread on the sole, and bright colors\u2026and you\u2019re done! In theory, yes. Running is the epitome of the most natural, most unpretentious form of sport imaginable. Since time immemorial, we have been walking and running through the landscape. Whether to hunt mammoths in prehistoric times, to expand our territory, or simply to get from A to B.<\/p>\n

If you look back through human evolution, it\u2019s as though we\u2019ve been made for running in natural terrain<\/a>. The entire musculoskeletal system, our muscles, tendons, ligaments \u2013 everything is designed for it. So why invest money in something that theoretically isn\u2019t necessary? If you take a look around the trail-running scene, you\u2019ll quickly realize that \u201cmodern\u201d trail runners carry a little more equipment with them than \u201cjust\u201d those shoes we mentioned. And the clothes they wear no longer have anything in common with the primitive nature of early man.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, in these blog posts we\u2019re writing for you, we try to explain why some gadget or other is still worth buying, which equipment you really need to make the switch from roads to trails as easy as possible when you\u2019re starting out, and what other things you might want to bear in mind. Let\u2019s go\u2026!<\/p>\n

Trail-running shoes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The big difference compared with road-running shoes is the sole, which has a (in some cases very) deep tread. When you\u2019re running on unpaved paths, you need grip. You can think of it like the tires on an off-road vehicle. The mantra \u201cthe more the better\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily apply in this case, though. Beginners<\/a> tend to start out buying shoes with a very pronounced, aggressive tread as they want to be equipped for running on any surface \u2013 however uneven and whatever the condition. When you\u2019re starting out, however, an all-rounder with a shallower tread but more lugs will be sufficient. One particularly good entry-level shoe is the Sense Ride 2 from Salomon*, for example. It has everything a genuine trail-running shoe should have (stone protection plate, quick-drying mesh upper, high shaft\u2026), with the advantage that they also feel and behave very similar to a road-running shoe. As a beginner, you generally won\u2019t be tackling high-alpine trails in the mountains straight away. You\u2019ll probably start by trying out local woodland or narrow hiking trails instead. That\u2019s why you need more of an all-rounder rather than a high-end shoe. It\u2019s unusual to have trails on your doorstep, too, so you may have to run a few kilometers on asphalt before you can go off-road. Shoes with smaller lugs are more suitable in this case, as they roll well on roads, while still providing the grip you need on trails.<\/p>\n

Finally, however, it is important to remember that the way shoes feel when you\u2019re wearing them is always subjective. So head to your favorite sports store and try them out.<\/p>\n

P.S. Please don\u2019t let them fob you off with hiking shoes;-)<\/p>\n

*The Baur brothers are also brand ambassadors for Salomon, which is why they like to recommend Salomon products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few words from the Baur brothers about getting started running \u201cover hill and dale\u201d Trail running is a sports trend that\u2019s booming. More and more people are leaving the roads behind and heading out into nature and onto trails. So what do you do? How do you get started? To answer these questions, pjuractive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[338,508,527,429,365,430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=20262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20273,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions\/20273\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20246\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}