Ideal Orienteering Runner's Legs

[graeme]

In its 5 January 2013 issue the Economist
SIR - The body-mass index that you (and the National Health Service) count on to assess obesity is a bizarre measure. We live in a three-dimensional world, yet the BMI is defined as weight divided by height squared. It was invented in the 1840s, before calculators, when a formula had to be very simple to be usable. As a consequence of this ill-founded definition, millions of short people think they are thinner than they are, and millions of tall people think they are fatter.

So despite my highest-ever-fat content I'm not overweight anymore!

Mind you, if you trust professors from Oxford you deserve all you get

[awk]

In its 5 January 2013 issue the Economist
....As a consequence of this ill-founded definition, millions of short people think they are thinner than they are, and millions of tall people think they are fatter.

So does that make me taller than I thought I was?

[Mrs H]

In its 5 January 2013 issue the Economist
millions of short people think they are thinner than they are,

[Jayne]

Freefall, just realised you have scooch leg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7sVSMbjyM

[Freefall]

Yes - that's just like me at about 1:43 into the video!

[JK]

I too have unbalanced legs as a result of severing my patella tendon and breaking my kneecap 30+ years ago. The left thigh has remained wasted while the right became overdeveloped.

Now the good news!!

If you look at my mountain marathon results then my best results tended to come in events with lots of anti-clockwise legs and I didn't do so well when the contouring went the other way - a bit like a 2 legged haggis!

So if your legs are in similar disproportion (and maybe with an equally good scottish-tan) to the photo above then you just need to pick your races more carefully!

[Carnage Head]

The thread title got me thinking again about something which I fairly frequently ponder when I orienteer in tough underfoot conditions,e.g. Brashings or tussocks: does being a significant overpronator give me a (much-needed!) advantage over orienteers with more neutral gaits? If you can picture my ungainly style it might help: imagine someone running wearing snorkelling fins and having to lift them over obstacles! On a related note I think it helps me run downhill- or perhaps that's just my foolhardiness.
Any thoughts?
From an insomniac captain of AIRE, waiting for CSCup number-crunching to take place but understanding wholly why it isn't at this hour!