Being on your feet on long runs, over two hours, has a huge impact on your bones and muscles and so it very important to keep a check on your running form and technique. Over that length of time it is easy for your body to sag under the pressure of gravity, as well as fatigue. When you feel this happening, a good training technique is to do a Body Scan. Here’s how to do it:
Ask yourself, is everything working correctly? Starting with your head, ask yourself is it upright or falling forward or to the side? Then move to your arms. Are you holding them in a relaxed way? Work down to your hands and ask yourself are they clenched rather than relaxed? Take a look at your legs and consider if you should lengthen or shorten your stride to make yourself feel more comfortable and relaxed. It’s amazing how this check of your whole body can loosen you up. Top runners do this to ensure they are running as efficiently as possible. And if it is good enough for them, then it’s good enough for us.
And if nothing else, by the time you have finished scanning you may have run another mile!
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