If you run, you already have a deeper connection with yourself – a deeper connection with the world – than those who don’t. You have already experienced moments of utter childish, joy-evoking freedom, moving forwards powered only by the gifts that nature has given you. In those moments, you have been stripped back. Away from a constant connection t

Don’t think of yourself as mechanical. Think of yourself as elastic, fluid, connected and synergistic.

Our fascial system creates a sea of tension that holds our body together. As we have discovered, this amazing system is constantly rejuvenating and it will rearchitect itself based on how it was broken down.

Imagine a long train of elastic running up an invisible centre line in your body (from your navel to the top of your forehead) and adopt a tall posture that keeps it pulled tight, bringing your hips forward and your pelvis into neutral, thus optimising the resultant elastic energy.

This negative nurture had changed the way we naturally moved and because the majority of us didn’t move with any conscious thought, we had carried these changes into our running form.

if I was going to be in a wheelchair then I’d make the best of it. Having accepted it, I started to consider the alternative. This time, though, I did it in increments without the level of pressure or expectation that I’d had before. I supposed that if I could just stand up then I wouldn’t necessarily have to be confined to a wheelchair. And if I c

we run a marathon, we are undertaking around 35,000 strides. That’s 35,000 x two-and-a-half times our bodyweight coming back at us. We can either use these 35,000 opportunities to load our body well and create elastic energy to propel us forwards or we can suffer all of that impact, which will in turn slow us down and potentially hurt us.

Our perception of our movement has a huge influence on the movement itself. If we change our perception, we will go a long way towards changing our movement.

If you’re worried about it being too hot, he warned me, the worry itself will drain your energy tanks and increase your perception of effort long before the heat actually gets to you.