You'd think running would come naturally, when you're a kid you do it all the time and it seems easy, but then I suppose youth, flexibility and an abundance of energy to burn help a lot. Sedentary lifestyles and bad posture most definitly do not.

Over the last month I've been looking at my running technique, and to be honest, when I first started to analyze it, I realised it was shocking. My feet were all over the place, I dropped slightly on one side, my legs were definitely not raising up correctly and I was getting injury after injury. In my defence, I was satrting from being overweight and unhealthy, so expecting my body to start miraculously performing, like it used too, was never going to happen.

If I had to say there was one thing that my bootcamp training didn't cover, and maybe should, was running posture and technique. There's a lot of running involved in bootcamp training, mainly short sprints, but also some longer sessions, so it would have been handy to have been corrected. I guess I could also have asked :), but instead I went to the internet and started trawling through videos and articles. There is a lot of good stuff out there, a lot of technical information, a lot of long reads, but this blog post below gave, what I think, was most of the relevant information, quickly, concisely and in written and video form. The short videos by 'Running with Eric" were particularly good.

This is not to say it's been easy since I started working on this, it's not, it takes a lot of repetitive work to retrain your body's movement. At this point my running form has improved, mainly in the early phases of a tun, but it is still hard for me to maintain all the way through when fatigue starts to kick in or the mind stops focussing on the task. But as they say 'take baby steps' and you'll get there. Ultimately you shouldn't need to concentrate or think about how you run, it should be an engrained process. But for now I just remind myself I'm a work in progress.

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