Improving Your Run Efficiency with Better Biomechanics

The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

TriDot Triathlon Training

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Improving your run efficiency with better biomechanics can dramatically improve your triathlon run performance and reduce your injury risk. In this episode, Coaches Jeff Raines and Elizabeth James dig into run biomechanics and discuss running cadence, arm swing, body lean, breathing patterns, vertical oscillation, stride length, and more. Learn to identify inefficiencies in your run form and how to incorporate drills to improve your mechanics.

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0:00.0	This is the TriDOT podcast. TriDOT uses your training data and genetic profile combined with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize your training, giving you better results in less time with fewer injuries.
0:17.8	Our podcast is here to educate, inspire, and entertain. We'll talk all things
0:23.6	triathlon with expert coaches and special guests. Join the conversation and let's improve
0:30.1	together. Together. Welcome, everyone. I am super excited that you've joined us today. We have a great show lined up talking through how to improve your running biomechanics.
0:44.5	I know a lot of you out there probably like me and you were a runner before you were a triathlete or maybe you're a triathlete and you're a runner and you want to know like how can I improve my form? How can I improve my technique?
0:55.4	How can I get more efficient as a runner?
0:57.6	And this episode is for you.
1:00.9	My first guest joining us today is coach Jeff Raines.
1:04.0	Jeff has a master's degree of science.
1:07.5	Jeff has a master's of science and exerciseiology and has qualified for Boston multiple times.
1:13.5	He has over 30 Iron Man event finishes to his credit and was a D1 collegiate runner.
1:19.1	Jeff, thanks for hopping back on the podcast to talk running.
1:21.9	Thank you, Andrew. Glad to be back.
1:23.7	I'm excited to hit the ground running and dive deeper into my favorite, the run discipline.
1:29.8	I'm like guaranteed now. I'm just learning that every time Jeff Raines is on the podcast, there will be a bad
1:35.2	pun right out of the gate. Like every single time, you have not let me down yet. Next up, hopefully
1:41.7	without a bad pun, is pro triathlete Elizabeth James.
1:45.5	Elizabeth is a Kona in Boston Marathon Qualifier, who has a recent marathon PR of three hours and 59 seconds.
1:53.1	Elizabeth is on a quest to complete a marathon in all 50 states, and with 18 states down, is already well on her way.
1:59.7	Elizabeth, thanks for joining us today. Well, thank you so much.
2:03.7	The run is definitely my favorite discipline. So anytime we have the opportunity to sit down and talk
2:08.3	about running, I am all for it. And who am I? I am your host, Andrew, the average triathlete,
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