Every 8 weeks or so, you should set yourself a technical goal to improve your running. That should be your focus during technical drills for the whole 8 weeks. The idea is to gradually improve your running form through incremental changes, but only ever working on one small aspect.<\/p>\n
As coaches we can observe you and help you formulate your technical goals and suggest how to achieve them. We can’t observe all of you every week, but every 8 weeks or so, one of us should take a look at how you are running.<\/p>\n
Here are the results of last night’s observation with some suggested goals and ideas how to achieve them.<\/p>\n
Danny:<\/strong> run with high hips and tall posture. Focus on this when doing drills but also during easy running. Goal: maintain good posture during easy runs.<\/p>\n Lauren:<\/strong> high knees during speed work. Do extra high knee drills and incorporate some strides with good form into your easy runs. Goal: Able to sustain 10% higher knee lift during reps.<\/p>\n Simon:<\/strong> build core strength to catch up with your recent speed improvements (congrats on the PB!). Incorporate some core work into your routine and focus on a stable core during drills. Goal: establish a core routine you can maintain.<\/p>\n Rosa:<\/strong> now your returning to running after a long absence you need to rebuild your running balance and coordination. Do the key running form drills (skips, high knees, heel flicks) as a warm up before your easy runs and focus on doing them with great form. Goal: perform key drills with good form.<\/p>\n Stephen:<\/strong> Try to land with you centre of gravity just in front of your feet. Practice some downhill running, for example do Hampstead Heath Parkrun and fly down hill. Goal: improve downhill pace by letting gravity do the work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every 8 weeks or so, you should set yourself a technical goal to improve your running. That should be your focus during technical drills for the whole 8 weeks. The idea is to gradually improve your running form through incremental changes, but only ever working on one small aspect. As coaches we can observe you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaser.me.uk\/wordpress\/coaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}