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vicek22 | 3 years ago
You are right, it's not easy to hear. I'm doing my best to run only on toes and mainly on soft trails rather than pavement. But I'll look into improving my form. I'll probably rely on online resources rather than coaching. I'm not sure I would find person I would trust in my small town.
I live in a mountain area and running is my favorite outdoor activity, I'll just have to do my best to improve my form to reduce the toll it takes on my body.
rcarr|3 years ago
You could look into getting a Stryd power meter. I believe it gives you insight into your running form as well as allowing you to run using power as your main metric rather than pace or heart rate. This should be more accurate as after a while you’ll know exactly how much watts you can sustain over a given interval. It’s the standard way of doing things in the cycling world (so much so that in Zwift the imaginary cycling world is called Watopia). If not, I’m sure there’s an app or coach out there that you’ll be able to send video clips to who can review your form. The problem is that everyone’s form starts to go to shit when they start getting tired or sprinting.
I don’t know what kind of training you’re doing at the minute but a lot of triathlon training has moved to an 80:20 model as well so that’s something you could potentially look into. You basically spend 80% of your cardio workouts in zone 2 and 20% in zone 4 or 5. Obviously how much time you have available makes a big difference, if you’ve only got twenty minutes a day then doing 4 x 20 minute zone 2 sessions a week and 1 x 20 minute zone 4 is probably not going to do a lot as you need to be doing long sessions in zone 2 to really see the benefits.
During the pandemic, I was struggling with running because of injuries and discovered rucking and really enjoy it. It’s worth trying out to see if you enjoy it because you’ve probably got all the equipment you need (rucksack, something heavy) and you still get to spend time out in the mountains. If you give it a go just make sure the rucksack you use has padded straps or it will suck. Take with a pinch of salt as it’s by the company who popularised rucking as a civilian sport but this white paper has a lot of science comparing the the impact of running vs rucking:
https://blog.goruck.com/rucking-training/the-rucking-white-p...
The main jist of it is that you can burn a very similar amount of calories from rucking as you can from running in the same space of time but with only half the impact on your joints.