Running Form

On another educational topic, this week was the start of a 4-week clinic at Big Peach Running Company on Good Form Running. Since it's not news to me that my running form is pretty awful, I'm hopeful that the classes will help. Right now, I usually struggle to get my cadence as high as 80; the ideal of 90 has seemed unreachable.

The first session had a few drills, that didn't do much for me. What did help, though, was viewing a video of my running. It's on youtube here and here. What an eye-opener! Forget about cadence, the real problem is posture. The day after the session, I did a quick 2-mile trail run focussing entirely on posture. To be fair, I was running in a pair of minimalist trail shoes, and no doubt cadence was on my mind. But I wasn't consciously trying to speed it up. The data doesn't lie; average cadence was 86!

Now this is promising. I can't wait until the next session.