Monday 23 January 2012

Small Circles..

...not big, elongated rugby balls

The camera never lies!

As part of a great (if busy!) day, I finally attended a Kinetic Running workshop on Saturday. I say finally as this is the 4th one that I have been aware of, but the first that I have actually been able to make. It was well worth it, but the truth sometimes hurts!

Following an initial warm up, you run a couple of laps on the track whilst being filmed, once from the side and once from behind. By analysing your running form and practising some drills, you can therefore improve your style and speed, and avoid injury.

All good! The interesting challenge has been to try and maintain my old 'form' whilst training for distance, allowing me to develop the strength to support the new form. Having (clearly!) not focused on the old form (hence the feedback providing the title for this piece) it is hard to switch back into it.

I need to do some thinking and get some focus around what I am going to do when, build this into my plan, and not 'just run'!