Running Technique Tips

Consistency is the key to sustaining and improving your running performance levels and is an important training goal in its own right. In this article my coaching partner Mark Gorski gives his thoughts on just how vital this consistency ingredient is to successful running.

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Whether you’re fast or slow, young or old, learning to plan and execute an evenly paced running race is the most effective strategy to claim your next personal best time.

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The Saucony Hattori is a super light glove-like shoe that is very popular with experienced minimalist runners. However, the zero drop Hattori should be treated with caution. In this article I give my thoughts and those of Fred Brossard – a man with the courage to run a marathon in these feather weight shoes.

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Over the past year, three of the leading male contenders in today’s US Olympic Trials Marathon held in Houston Texas have had an unusual amount of scrutiny of their running form. Meb, Ritz and Hall, for various reasons, captured the attention of professional journalists and bloggers alike as everyone queued up to have their say. As the running technique debate rages on I wonder who will come out on top when the rubber hits the road?

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I’ve recently been experimenting with barefoot jogging, zero drop shoes and reintroducing my body to racing spikes after a twenty year layoff. Here’s a few observations based on what I’ve learned.

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There are more ways than the stopwatch to measuring running success. Benchmarking every run against your best efforts can be counterproductive. What might appear an average performance to an outsider could be a personal triumph for the individual given where it fits with the rest of life’s complexities.

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