Comments on: Improve Your Performance Without Injury

By: Ben R. Bautista

Ben R. Bautista — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:05:17 +0000

When are you going to have a workshop in the Chicago area?

By: Cindy Bartelt

Cindy Bartelt — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:34:39 +0000

I am concerned about my sisters daily running, 7 days a week. My sister runs 4 miles a day for her exercise along with a 45 minutes arobic exercise. She doesn’t do any strength training. She is 42 years old and extremely thin; 5ft 2inches and 90 pounds. She has daily aches and pains in her feet, and must were her walking shoes every minutes of the day. I’m afraid the running may be hurting her feet. She has a very narrow, flat foot, but does wear an arch support. I will be giving her the information on this web site that can maybe help her. Any specific sugestions would be appreciated.

By: Paul Timm

Paul Timm — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:05:25 +0000

Did my second marathon of the year in Boise a few weeks ago. I’ll be 65 next week and easily won my age with a respectable 4:34 time. And I owe it all to Chi Running. I enjoy it more, bounce back much quicker. I sometime repeat a simple form-reminding mantra like “ankles” “ankles” to remind me to lean. ‘Do a different aspect of form during each run. It’s getting increasingly natural and literally has changed my 33 yr running “career.” I’m retiring in January and plan to do at least 6 injury-free marathons next year. Thanks again, Danny!

By: Bill Barker

Bill Barker — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:35:00 +0000

I am a convert of perhaps a year of running Chi - I pretty much run a whole marathon without loosing form. I am 6ft 2in tall and have size 13 shoe. I weigh 180 so I am by no mean overweight, but here is the kicker - I end up with Plantar F. due to the lever of my mid strike foot fall as my long foot puts excessive stress on my PF. I’m moving into a New Bal 1100 series shoe and getting a orthotic, but what do I need to do in my striding to prevent this dilemma

By: James

James — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:56:28 +0000

This is such a great Blog because it addresses an element of running that is so often neglected - technique.

Just like in swimming, technique is what differentiates the running masses, and the runners that seem to be effortless and always comfortable.

The key to becoming one of the effortless is practice.

The old saying, “Practice makes perfect” is no longer valid because only PERFECT practice makes perfect.

By: edwardun

edwardun — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:37:49 +0000

Danny,
I just ran the Beijing International Marathon yesterday, finishing in a time of 5hrs 11mins.Disppointed as I set my target of 4.5hrs to 5hrs.This is my 3rd year participated in this ran. HOwever, I have improved from 5hrs 40mins in 2006 to 5hrs 18min last year.
Reading your article above, that was exactly what I had in mind,ie to train more and harder. I know that I need to improve my forms as well, which I was not able to sustain during the whole time yesterday. I would like your advise as to how to maintain the forms while runnning the whole marathon. Obviously I would not be able maintain the pace of 180 steps per minute for the whole marathon. How do I train for such stamina, apart from practicing harder? I am also using the cross trainer machine - the step and push.
I do not have much opportunity to ran outside.
looking forward to hear from you Danny
Edward

By: Ramnik Shah

Ramnik Shah — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:31:20 +0000

Danny,

You have defined training in a beautiful style to link it with a higher objective of attaining one-ness with self i.e., the Body, the Mind and the Soul. I’m sure every long distance runner has experienced this one time or another.

During my schooling days, my teacher advised me to work smarter rather than harder by brute force. Chirunning technique is indeed one of the skills to run “longer distances with greater proficiency and efficiency”.

Listening to oneself through self-observation was well taught by Lord Buddha through a non-sectarian technique called “Vipassana” (http://www.dhamma.org/en/vipassana.shtml)

Cheers

Ramnik Shah

By: Rick Cleary

Rick Cleary — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:11:42 +0000

Hi, my name is Rick Cleary. I’m a running coach from River Falls, WI. I’ve developed a new product that tracks your stride rate every workout and automatically tracks your shoe wear too. I use ChiRunning with my team and find that the Shoe Odometer is a perfect complement. Personally, I’ve gone from 169 strides per minute (spm) to 178 spm. At 46 years old I’m running every day without being injured. http://www.shoeodometer.com