Easy aerobic run with technique cues

Technique focus:

1) Lift your head as tall as possible - imagine a string pulling the top of your head up to the sky. Keep your gaze looking forward and the head as still as you can.

2) Keep your shoulders back, swinging the arms so that you pull the elbows back but don't let the hands come forward and in front of your body (only coming to just forward of your ribs). Relax the fingers so they can gently brush your lower ribs/waist.

3) While staying tall have a slight forward lean coming from your hips/pelvis. Imagine you are being pulled forward from the front of your pelvis. Let gravity assist your forward progress, your feet are then just landing under your centre of gravity and preventing you from falling flat on your face!

4) Pick your heels up, focus more on the lifting your feet quickly off the ground than the landing. Keep that cadence quick and foot fall light.

5) Imagine your foot like a tripod with the contact points being; 1) base of the big toe, 2) base of the little toe, 3) heel. Try landing with a flatter foot strike and keep pressure even between these 3 contact points. Where does your foot need to land to even out these loading points?