Run Form Video

Here's a fascinating video breaking down an elite runner's (well, triathlete's) form.

The most helpful addition to my fledgeling intuition about running form is his point about the follow-through. I've read elsewhere that stride length should be at the back end, not the front end, but I never understood why that is. In the video he demonstrates that by bringing your heel high at the end of the stride, you decrease the rotational force required to bring the knee back up into the next stride. It makes perfect sense that rather than swinging the nearly straight leg forward, you'd rather swing only half the leg (because the lower half is curled underneath you).

It's also particularly cool to see Miranda Carfrae hammering her 6:40 pace in the late miles of the run at Kona.