Evolution (of my) Running Entry 2
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TryScott posted 38 weeks ago.
Thanks for the update. I'm curious to know how long it will take until you are pretty sure that you're consistantly running with the Evolution form correctly...
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RV posted 38 weeks ago.
It does take a while to feel it as second nature. Biggest for me was to ensure that the lean (slight) came from the ankles and not waist. It felt most awkward at first on downhills, but you'll find a lot of free speed when doing it right. The drills are important to really work through before doing a lot of running.
Neat thing was last weekend during a marathon someone commented to me about my form and I told them about Evolution.
RV
It takes a long time to get good. - Scott Molina
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast. - Rich Strauss
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little.dipper posted 38 weeks ago.
Does landing on the mid/balls of your feet feel kind of flat-footed to you? I've got the book on it's way, but I've tried some of the principles in my last few runs and I feel like I'm landing kind of hard on my feet. I'm pretty flatfooted anyways, so it's not a huge deal for me, but I'm just wondering if others notice the same thing?
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RV posted 38 weeks ago.
little.dipper;82576 wrote:
Does landing on the mid/balls of your feet feel kind of flat-footed to you?...
No not to me.
Are you landing with your foot directly beneath you?
Cuz with that and the lean - it feels like I'm always springing forward and not coming down hard on my foot.
RV
It takes a long time to get good. - Scott Molina
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast. - Rich Strauss
2nd Run trying to use the ER method.
Happy to report I got the book last night. I read the technique section both last night and tonight before I went. After all the reading here, reading the book was great. It filled in a lot of blanks and details. The drills were very helpful to understand the ideas.
So tonight I set out for a 1 hour Endurance run mostly for working on the technique.
Goal: 1.) To really work on getting my footfall underneath my center of mass and on the balls of my feet. 2.) to really work on staying upright with a slight forward lean.
Results
Distance: 5.22 miles
Time: 58 mins
AVG HR: 144
Max HR: 160
Cals 763
It is hard to emphasize how short of strides I needed to use.
It was really hard to make sure I didn't get my strides out in front tonight.
I definitely was running with a different stride - I could really feel my hip flexors were engaged all the time, but it was harder to make sure my glutes were constantly engaged.
At times it felt like I was more or less just swinging my legs underneath my hips and I could really relax all my leg muscles.
It felt like I was "carrying" myself with my glutes and hip flexors.
It seemed to feel best if I concentrated on running with no bounce at all.
My HR was slightly higher than I would have expected - especially because I did the whole run practically without losing my breath.
Even though the run was slow, I felt like I could have easily gone much faster without much extra effort. I couldn't hold the form 100% of the time, but I think I got it right some of the time.
I tried the heel flick a few times, but didn't concentrate on it much. My feet still felt much better than when running the old way.
At times it reminded me of how what I used to do in various other sports as "warm-up jogs" where you jog around on the balls of your feet lightly.
Overall, it felt fairly good, but slightly uncoordinated.