Thursday, July 23, 2015

Running 101 : From the couch to my first marathon (5)


Running is simple and natural.
However, there is an actual technique, and it starts to show if you are accumulating miles.
More important, this is fundamental in trying to stay injury free.
Running is a dangerous sport.
We never heard of a runner who was not injured at one point or another.
There is one rule, to rule them all.

DO NOT HEEL STRIKE (*)



Learn from the best(s).


Seems easy ?
Add 90 minutes into it.
Look at yourself.
You are not that tall anymore.
You are not leaning forward anymore.
And you are heel striking.
As always, the devil is in the details. And 90 minutes into it, details do not matters anymore.


Pure magic. Two hours of pure magic.


Specially in this case, do what I say - or what they say - and not like I do.
Because I am like you: "Keeping a proper running form for 4 hours sounds impossible".
It is way easier to keep it only for 2 hours, isn't it ?
Just. Run. Faster.




(*) Obviously, there are some "subtleties" with the upper body that are as important. But I like to make a point, wrong or not.

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