” Running is the most natural of all athletic activities in the sense that most of us start running as children and continue throughout the course of our lives. “

The human body is beautifully designed to run. To help achieve comfort in running, I have these basic “techniques” of mine aside from a good pair of shoes and socks, shorts and running top:

1. Lean forward slightly.
Look at the postures of top runners and you’ll see that they all lean forward slightly. To help yourself, try fixing your gaze about 10 to 15 metres in front of you.

2. Strike the ground lightly with your heel first.
If you were to slow down the foot action whilst running, you would see that you land on your heel and then roll forward, through the ball of your foot, pushing off with your toes.

3. Starting your running session.
At the beginning of a run, keep your stride short. Too long a stride incorporates a high kick at the back of the stride, which quickly tires the hamstring muscles. As your legs begin to loosen up on the run, then you can lengthen your stride.

4. Use your arms.
You will be surprised how much your arms work during a run. On hills, you pump with your arms to help you, or you should do. Sometimes, if you haven’t run for a long time, your arms will be more tired than you legs at the end of a run! Your hands, arms and shoulders should be relaxed but working when you run. The hands and forearms shouldn’t cross over the body as they swing back and forth. Nor should they be held too high. Don’t tense your hand into a fist. To avoid this, trying running with your hands held open. Don’t hunch your shoulders.

5. Keep your breathing relaxed.
Breathe from your diaphragm, not from your chest. Think of the wall of your stomach as a bellows: when it bulges outward, it is sucking in air, when it pushes inwards; it is forcing air out of your lungs.Since I have those list above, I’ve got to remove my running itch this coming Saturday, October 14 and join Merco fun run and on next week after Merco fun run is Bantay Bata charity fun run…

Yesterday, I woke up early in the morning at around 4:15 am and geared up and scratch my running itch from Ma-a to Victoria Plaza route San Rafael and Marfori Subs and back.

Wheew! What a great feeling! Prepared myself for a whole day event called WORK. hehehe