I did it again

Been a while I did not update this blog. It will be a long one then.

I was waiting to confirm it was not a fad. I am on the road (and the trails) again. No official goal yet, but it seems that the post marathon trauma ( 6 months already ?) seems to be over.
My mood -unsurprisingly - matches roughly the number of miles I can run every week.
Family life, work quality, focus, energy level is now tied to my running.
Swimming - my injury backup solution- helps a bit, but it is not the same.

Travelling. stinky running gear all overt the place.

The specific of running, sort-of middle effort, in-between cycling and swimming, hard enough to trigger the runner high, or meditative trance, but not that hard that it let you down, exhausted.

It helps clear my mind, swing ideas, increase creativity and overall, zen. Sore muscles and light aches are quite a low price to pay considering the benefits.

While you can run.
Injury Free running.
The next million dollar mobile App.

Last months of running

I naively thought that I improved my form enough to be - finally - injury free - the saint Grail of all runners. But it has been few years now, and it never really went better. Those damn psoas were always there to stop me at any time, specially when the mileage raise before a race, or after the race, when I go beyond my limits.

This time I decided to try to change something new.

I went back to the basics. Dusted off my favorite 'Cool impossible book' and finally decided to follow the advises in it . Building a base, following the program. A 5 month program.

That's a commitment.
Step back to jump further.

Eric's wisdom

And exercising.
Doing hip and leg exercises everyday, focusing on triggering the glutes.
Strengthening the hips. Stabilizing the core.
Found in the book an interesting remark about the 'benders', usually coming from the barefoot/minimalist world, using such a high pace that they actually skip the back leg extension. Hip flexors and quads compensate - to some extent - boom - sounds familiar.
Obviously, while trying to correct previous running forms mistakes, I developed new ones.

Here comes my favorite saying : "Won't do the same mistake twice, will do new ones".

Back to the basics.
Extend that leg. Lift that knee.

At the same time, I tumbled on this 'Running Experience' program. Beware, that's the modern way of socializing experiences, bombing you with emails and marketing offers, but.......

You hate or not Nate. And the full power - made US-  marketing business machine of the program.

But....

The guy is spot on. 

This annoying to admit - because the program is super-hyped - crossfit anyone ? - but that works. And the fundamentals are just ... right.

You re gonna see a ton of Nate's.

Dig into a couple of click on the website and you should get offer like 80% off the original price.
(PERFECTPROMO code give you the video set for 7$ https://start.therunexperience.com/get-the-perfect-running-form, etc...). Facebook is the meat of the community. You get the idea, welcome to 21th century. YouTube & Facebook. Usually, that's a triggering all sort of red lights.
But....
The actual content is spot on.

Flash back.
Let's go into the seventies. Just kidding. This interview is only a few years back. You want the same content, in a more 'new age' way. From a Physical Therapist perspective.
Not that different, just the other side of the same story.
All good. All very interesting.
Compare this one hour in depth old-school interview with one 3 min video from Nate&co.
Pick your style.

Phil Wharton's show

If you just can get the content, not just read or fly through, but digest the message, you have 3 ways to get there. And if you can actually really dig into it, and apply their methods, and make it yours, you will be flying over there.
We are not talking about running anymore.
Flying.
Miles and miles passing by.
Running like Flying.
I did it again.