(28-10-2013, 08:26 PM)marathondan Wrote: (28-10-2013, 07:17 PM)Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man Wrote: (28-10-2013, 01:42 PM)marathondan Wrote: 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.
Well, actually, it's not necessarily a tip-toe approach at all - you watch kids running and they have a variety of foot strikes like we all do. What they seem to do quite naturally when told to run "quietly" is to shorten the stride and glide, i.e. keep the feet low to the ground. So while that implies a mid-foot landing, in fact it can be anything, but it won't be exaggerated because of the short stride, hence a quiet landing and fewer injuries.
Or so it seems to me.
But you still need a stable core!
