2013 Part Deux

[marathondan]

I recall MLCMM talking once about "running quietly", i.e. one the forefoot rather than hell-plodding, and it struck a chord.

As it did me, when I first heard it, which was at one of my kids 'Little Athletics' sessions, where the coach simply told the kids to run "making as little noise as you can with your feet" which seemed to me to distil hours and hours of coaching into one simple message... which worked! It's a sort of holistic, or Zen approach I suppose - you visualise what you want to do and then let the body get on with it ... the brain will work out how to "run quietly" without your self-coaching interference.

Yes, that's the story - glad I didn't dream it up! But you can see how that sort of tiptoe approach is stressing my Achilles tendons.