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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Improving Running form

After the session with Wouter Buist I made a great progression. With the adjustments in my running form I ran more easy with the same speed. A week after the session I ran a 5K and I realized the same time as the race where I had blisters on my feet. This time I had no blisters and I ran with using less energy. The most spectacular improvement is the change of landing, I had an extensive forefoot landing with a stride which was a little shorter than my shod stride. Now I changed it to a fore-mid food landing and a much shorter stride. This results in less “crawling” with the toes and with that no more blisters. Also the impact on my calf’s is reduced whereby I can run for a longer time. Before the session I was running maximum 30 minutes and in four weeks I made a progression and I had my first 10K race (51 minutes). For now I keep on working on improving and training my running form!