If you get a side-on picture of an elite runner, their head is directly over their shoulders,

which is directly over their pelvis, in one tall position.

Now they might have a very, very slight lean forward, but it's only very slight.

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Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by scientific triathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and today's episode is part one in a two-part series on running

biomechanics with Dr. Tom Hughes. He is a running biomechanics expert with a PhD in the movement

patterns of the foot during running and he actually got

into that research doing his PhD at the University of Loughborough after having already worked as

a medical doctor for quite some time so that's really interesting but he left medicine and got

his PhD got coaching qualifications from British triathlon, and ended

up founding Tri-Mechanics, which is his business, which is based in Leeds, and that's where he

does his running analysis and helps athletes, triathletes and runners, run healthier, better, etc.

And I didn't really know from the start, although I had a slight suspicion that it might be a long interview.

But I wasn't sure it was going to be a two-part episode, but it ended up being a long interview

because Tom had so much gold to share that we ended up talking for quite some time and

therefore I decided to split this interview into two parts so you'll hear the next part on the next

episode of course and whether you're completely healthy or chronically injured either side of the

extreme I can guarantee that you'll come away with some nuggets that can change

your running for the better. I've already changed, for example, how I sit at my computer right now

recording this because of the interview with Tom and that's something that will have in the

interview either today or the next time. So before we dive into the interview, let's thank our sponsors that help keep the show up and

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