Transcript

Hello and good morning. From the start of the New York City Marathon. I have run this race 11 times, but I'm not running today. I'm here with my friends from TCS Tata Consulting Services. They're the lead sponsor and I'll be watching the race with them. I want to talk a little bit about the tech that has helped me most in my training and also my philosophy of running shoes and why certain kinds of super shoes are best for a race like today. So the tech that has helped me running, I use a lot of tech. First of all, for watching the race, obviously you should use the New York City TCS Marathon. They have something like 320,000 downloads, people around the world watching. You can stream the lead runners in the race for training. A couple of things that really help me. I use a sensor on my waistband that measures my balance, my stride, my cadence. I have sensors that I put on my shoes that measure my foot impact and my power. Somewhat useful, I feel like it helps me track and see whether I'm getting injured or not. I use this wonderful watch where I've got about 15 different settings embedded in different things, but the main thing I'd like to do is to watch my heart rate. And my pay. So that when I'm doing a Temple Run, I can adjust both based on how I feel, how fast I'm running and what my heart rate is. For my heart rate, I use a monitor on my arm. There's so much bone here that it's actually fairly inefficient to try to measure your heart rate from your wrist. It's much better to try to get it from here or here. But of course, the most important tech when you run and when you race is what you wear on your feet, Your shoes. Your feet act kind of like pendulums when you run. So weight is extremely important. A light shoe will unquestionably make you go. Faster Traditionally there's a trade off. If you have a light shoe, you're getting less protection, which means there's more impact on your legs, which means your quads are torn up. So you get some mile 2223 of this race. Your quads feel terrible. The day after a race. You have to walk downstairs backwards because your quads have been destroyed because you've been running in a light shoe without a lot of support. In the last, I don't know, 7-8 years there's been a revolution in what people call super shoes, where there's been a combination of better phone, better insulation that is both light and helps protect you add in little. Like spoon shaped things at the bottom of your shoe and you're able to get a little more propellant propulsion. More recently people have been building really great running shoes with extremely high what's called stack height, which means a lift in your heel which sort of propels you forward. So my philosophy of these definitely use a light shoe, definitely use a racing shoe, but try out different pairs. The most advanced super shoes actually don't make me go any faster. The huge stack height shoes, they don't really work. Second thing to remember is different shoes. Put different stress on your body. So if you wear those, you might be having more protection in your Achilles, but more stress in your quads. So one of the other things that I do is I train in a bunch of different shoes, so I'm moving the stress around my body as I go, and I'm also learning which shoes I like. I also actually sometimes do hard runs and beat up shoes because it prepares you a little more for the stress of running a race like this. All right, that's enough about the tech. This is going to be an amazing day. I love this race. The weather is. Perfect. I'm excited for some fast times and 40,000 beautiful people going and running through all 5 boroughs of New York. Alright, that's most interesting. Taxi tomorrow.