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- From: passier@bmerh9a1.BNR.CA (Chris Passier)
- Subject: Re: Advice on technique???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.134721.21178@bmers145.bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: passier@bmerh9a1.BNR.CA (Chris Passier)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <yogi.722144880@coombs> <1992Nov19.044731.29682@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 13:47:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.044731.29682@umbc3.umbc.edu>,
- cs631112@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs631112) writes:
- |>
- |>The advice I have been following, gleaned from a combination of magazines,
- |>books, talks with physiologists, and guesswork, is:
- |>
- |>Your optimum stride length = your natural stride length. There is not
- |>much you can do to change it.
- |>
- I believe in this too. A concious effort to change one's stride seems to
- rarely produce the desired result. However, I think that one can fall
- into a new "natural" stride by becoming more flexible. Someone earlier
- had made the analogy between the legs and pendulums. Where, given the legs
- length, weight, strength etc., a given stride is produced (or something
- like that). I think that if the pendulum is allowed to swing further, by
- increasing flexibility, a new longer stride could be attained.
-
- I noticed this myself when I spent a few months doing some martial arts
- training (boy! do they stress flexibility) and my running stride seemed
- to just get longer on its own.
- |>Increased speed comes from quicker turnover. This is developed through
- |>speedwork (running intervals slightly faster than your intended race
- |>speed with recoveries between to allow you to keep it up.)
- |>
- |>Endurance comes from going out and slogging miles. Ain't no other way.
- |>
- |>I hope this helps.
- |>--
- |> Joshua Engel |\
- |> President, |/ urgatorio
- |> | roductions
- |>
-
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