Awesome Running

Awesome Running

Just look at this man. Usain Bolt is a legend already. The running style is so fantastic, relaxed and flowing. Poetry in motion, absolutely, Bolt just makes the rest of the field look rather pedestrian. Consider this: Bolt doesn’t feel on top form and he delivers this!

Enjoy!

I ran today and it was an easy five miles but I was finding it hard to relax. I was still running with far too much tension -- especially on the down hills.

Relaxing is the single most difficult thing to do. I read JonP’s post tonight and it made me think. It is the red button syndrome. If you think about it, you can’t stop yourself from doing it and you also build up tension in anticipation of doing it. Here is Jon’s post in answer to Robs’ question about scuffing the sides of the feet on landing…

“Robs, remember we just need to “weight” the ball of foot not go out and try and “get to” the ball of foot. Let your foot land and you will sense it is “weighted” correctly, but if you try and look for the ball of foot when you run, you will land ahead and have a greater chance of lateral landing and heel weighting. So there’s the paradox, to land perfectly on ball of foot, just let it happen and don’t try and get to the ball of foot. Make sense?”

And Jon’s thoughts about Bolt…

“Looks a very good BOF when I did a frame by frame on that video. Interestingly he seems to really shift his bodyweight quickly as he pulls his foot -- maybe helps him to get into the next lean as he lands. His upper body is not held rigid at all -- take note folks Also his arms and shoulders are very loose flowing.”