It occurred to me before running today that, having read countless articles and studied numerous videos detailing the intricate component parts of good BF technique, my brain was maybe getting a bit overloaded and confused (I’m a simple sole and, being a man am also not terribly good at focusing on more than a couple of things at a time!).
So for this morning’s run I decided to give my brain a rest and forget about my feet completely. Instead I just concentrated on ‘upright posture’ and ‘lift the knees’ and left everything else to do its own thing, just to see what happened. –Amazingly I’m happy to be able to post that today was probably my most enjoyable run yet: no pain, aching, tightness, blisters, etc… and post run the feet feel good.
I do have a habit of over-thinking things sometimes, and I wonder if perhaps I have been doing the same with learning to BF. Or maybe it’s a coincidence of timing and, after a couple of months now, things are just starting to fall into place.
Anybody else think that sometimes trying to concentrate on every minor part of your technique occasionally becomes counter-productive?
-Still enjoying the experience anyway (wish I’d discovered this a few years ago!).
So for this morning’s run I decided to give my brain a rest and forget about my feet completely. Instead I just concentrated on ‘upright posture’ and ‘lift the knees’ and left everything else to do its own thing, just to see what happened. –Amazingly I’m happy to be able to post that today was probably my most enjoyable run yet: no pain, aching, tightness, blisters, etc… and post run the feet feel good.
I do have a habit of over-thinking things sometimes, and I wonder if perhaps I have been doing the same with learning to BF. Or maybe it’s a coincidence of timing and, after a couple of months now, things are just starting to fall into place.
Anybody else think that sometimes trying to concentrate on every minor part of your technique occasionally becomes counter-productive?
-Still enjoying the experience anyway (wish I’d discovered this a few years ago!).