Good Morning Kicksters! Mustang Mom running before coffee? I have to get a cup as soon as I get up to get my heart started.<br><br>
Mike hope that you get over that cold soon. When I was living on the Wasatch front, I often had sinus problems and felt like a cold was coming on but I think the polutents that settle in down there in the winter is the culprit.<br><br>
This months Scientific American MIND has several excellant articals on how the brain works. Of interest was about our perception of time. My interest is in how it applies to cadence and running in general. When we run and especially on difficult terrain, everything rely's on accurate calculation of time and distance in 3 demensional space, the results are perfect unless we think about it. If we think about time we can be close up to about 3 seconds. If we are busy time passes faster. I don't recall if there was mention of age and our perception of time, but most folks including myself percieve time as passing faster as we age. My own theory on that is that we probably unconciously percieve moments in time as a fraction of the amount of time that we have been alive. This brings me back to cadence.<br><br>
How do we percieve cadence? Do I use intellect? Is there a natural timer that controls that and is that timer effected by age? What I have noticed when I go from a metronome at a musically correct setting, that I can go to music at a different beat and maintain the same cadence and still be in time with the music. I don't work that out intellectually.<br><br>
In Noaks book there is some interesting stuff on energy being stored during footplant and then released when pushing off. My question here is, how long does the muscles store this energy? This really could be key to why it is important to have a fast cadence. Perhaps with a slow cadence, most of the energy has been released before the push off.<br><br>
Some of these ideas for me seems to reinforce the importance of developing a fast cadence and practicing it. Perhaps as I age, my perception of time is reflected in my cadence and may require that I relearn it periodically.<br><br>
Good Runs All, Larry
