For many runners, scoring a faster running time can be a point of frustration. Though you train regularly and your technique may seem impeccable, sometimes your efforts seem to add up to nothing when it comes to improving your speed. In fact, how fast or slow you run often has a great deal to do with your economy of motion.
Economy of motion is a simple enough concept. It refers to the relationship between how much energy you expend when you run and how fast you go. Typically, the less energy it take you to run a given distance the faster - or more “economical” - you will run. Unfortunately, as the New York Times reports, improving your running economy is one task that’s particularly difficult to accomplish, if possible at all.
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Whether you’re out of shape or very fit, spinning classes can help you improve. You ride a stationary bicycle in a group, with a leader who tells you what to do and plays lively music to set the tempo.
Many health clubs and gyms offer these classes, and I recommend them to all of my patients. Spinning is relatively safe because it is done with a smooth rotary motion that does not involve the muscle damaging road shock of running.
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With winter just around the corner
- treadmill sales are inevitably on the rise.
Although some “traditionalists” look down upon those runners who aren’t “tough enough” to run outside in freezing temperatures, treadmills can help runners’ stay safe and injury free.
Cold weather is extrinsically tied to ice, snow and other dangerous road & sidewalk conditions. In addition to these potential hazards, if it is so cold that icicles begin to form on your eye lashes - you significantly increase the possibility of pulling or even tearing a muscle.
Trish Monks, writing all the way from England, is a wonderful addition to our team. Although Brits might speak a little differently and make us laugh from time to time - we still love them and we love Trish’s writing. Enjoy!
There are many reasons why I wish I were a morning person, but the main one would have to be my running. If I could do most of my training before going to work, my life would be so much easier.
I have managed it a few times over the last couple of years, most memorably while I was training for the Paris marathon in 2004.
I vividly remember arriving home after an early morning training run, with my hair frozen solid and the sun still not up! At the time, because of other commitments (i.e. life!), it was the only way I could fit my increasingly heavy running schedule into my day, and for many, that’s a day-to-day reality.
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