Forces can affect your running greatly. Forces can slow you down, speed you up and can even bring you pain if you do under stand whats happening. When you are running the most important force that you should understand is friction. Friction is a force that opposes movement between two objects, but for runners friction makes you faster. Friction gives you a better and more efficient way to use your energy into speed. This is where having the right type of shoes come in, shoes give you more friction or another term for it is grip. Having more grip on the ground enables you to have more for produced with every step.
The second biggest force that you deal with is air resistance or fluid friction. Air resistance is a force that slows an object down while moving through the air. When you are running in to the wind, air resistance makes it feel like you hit a wall and can't move forward. Learning how to be more arrow dynamic can help make air resistance less of a problem.
The second biggest force that you deal with is air resistance or fluid friction. Air resistance is a force that slows an object down while moving through the air. When you are running in to the wind, air resistance makes it feel like you hit a wall and can't move forward. Learning how to be more arrow dynamic can help make air resistance less of a problem.
When you look at the diagram you can see that the air resistance is pushing back on you when you are running. You can also see that friction is fighting you when you push off the ground.
Shoe Designs
The design of a shoe is important to a runner. Their are different styles of shoes for different types of running. For people that do short sprint running they have a lot of long spikes so that they have great friction between their shoes and the track that they are running on and will be able to reach high speeds. The design of this shoe also allows the wearer to hit their top speed faster than they would in normal shoes.
The long sprint spikes are similar to the short sprint, except the long sprint spikes have fewer spikes on them since they wearer has more distance to pick up speed and don't need as much friction as the short sprint. The long sprint
spikes are used for high speed, but don't have enough friction to hit high speeds quickly.
Middle Distance spikes are used for a higher-slower speed running events. These spikes are mainly used for the 400 meter run and the 4x4 relays. Middle distance spike have short and very few spikes on them so that you have control when your running and still have grip on the track to be able to hit higher speeds when needed.
Long distance spikes are very similar to the middle distance spikes, but long distance spikes are for the two events 800 meters and the 1600 meter run. The design is also different, the back of the long distance spike is flat like a normal shoe with a few short metal spikes in the front of the shoe for traction.
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The long sprint spikes are similar to the short sprint, except the long sprint spikes have fewer spikes on them since they wearer has more distance to pick up speed and don't need as much friction as the short sprint. The long sprint
spikes are used for high speed, but don't have enough friction to hit high speeds quickly.
Middle Distance spikes are used for a higher-slower speed running events. These spikes are mainly used for the 400 meter run and the 4x4 relays. Middle distance spike have short and very few spikes on them so that you have control when your running and still have grip on the track to be able to hit higher speeds when needed.
Long distance spikes are very similar to the middle distance spikes, but long distance spikes are for the two events 800 meters and the 1600 meter run. The design is also different, the back of the long distance spike is flat like a normal shoe with a few short metal spikes in the front of the shoe for traction.
For more information on forces in running go to this link http://physicstt.tripod.com/id9.html.
For more information on the difference between the shoes go to this link http://livehealthy.chron.com/difference-between-sprinting-track-spikes-long-distance-track-spikes-9676.html