What I look like when I run

[Couchpotato2]

Yesterday after 2 weeks of feeling I was making real progress with my running and pleased at losing weight (8kg) I filmed myself to see how to improve my technique. Wow was suitably horrible, worse than running photos. Anyway just seen this on instagram and it perfectly sums it up

instagram.com/p/B_QPgDkgdPg...

[Katnap Graduate10]

I'm sure your running form is better than that! 😃😅😂🤣

🐱 Katnap 🐱

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Katnap]

I’m a little faster but otherwise quite similar...

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

I don't think you can run naturally when the camera is on you CP2😉 it all goes a bit stiff and awkward😁...

That's my experience of this anyway 😆

Better to imagine the prancing pony or gazelle that you feel you look like!

Happy running.🌷xxx

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

Yes I was feeling reasonably good but found out that not only i heel strike in some shoes, i waddle from side to side and run on a line rather than each side of it. Thinking gazelle thoughts!xx

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Wow 8kg well done you that must make a big difference to your running. I think running form is vastly overrated 🤣🤣 having a fun run is the important thing 🤗

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Grannyhugs]

Well it’s a form just maybe not the prettiest or most efficient. At least it can only get better!

Thanks, yes it’s really starting to make a difference. I did some tempo intervals and checked after; was doing them at 4’30” per km!!! 😱 I generally run 7’30-8’... kipchoge better look out when I am at targe weight!

[damienair Administrator]

Sometimes at parkrun I would have had a very good run and finished in under 27 minutes. When I would have looked back on the photos taken at parkrun I looked like I was having a fit. But that’s ok, I was putting in a good effort. Then other days at parkrun I would decide to have a nice relaxing run finishing in around 30 mins. I still looked like I was having a fit in the run photos. Meanwhile in my head there I was thinking I was an athlete.

Damien

[Couchpotato2 in reply to damienair]

Haha yes, I was thinking, I must be looking ok, I feel great and running more easily. Yeah i looked like I’d been released from somewhere. Helps knowing it’s not just me

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

Well done on the weight loss! That’s brilliant 👍💪🙂

What we look like when we run is overrated, we’re all moving and strutting our stuff so what does it matter if we look a bit......disheveled. ...? 🤣🏃‍♀️🏃🤣

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Irishprincess]

Well it wasnt the disheveled that got me. The night before I’d dressed up and felt amazing and got very positive comments. Next day not only I look pretty fat and hideous in day glow but i waddle! I generally was swaying fromnside to side. Now the massive positive is that I don’t see myself run in real life so i can definitely be a gazelle again

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to Couchpotato2]

We’re all gazelles here ....🏃‍♀️🏃🙂

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Irishprincess]

absolutely!

[Reluctantrunner40 Graduate10]

Well done on losing 8kg - huge achievement! Whilst out running yesterday I wondered about filming myself to improve my technique- don’t think I will now! 🙈🤣

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Reluctantrunner40]

Haha well, it is useful but be warned it’s unlikely you will see it as looking ok. So be mentally prepared!

[Reluctantrunner40 Graduate10 in reply to Couchpotato2]

I might leave it 🤣

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Reluctantrunner40]

Or join me in the misery!

[MartinKH Graduate10]

Well done on your weight loss, and on getting 4m30 per k/m during your intervals.

That is some going.

In my own (deluded) mind, I run powerfully yet gracefully. The reality is totally different, as I noticed a few weeks ago when I saw my reflection in a shop window. I didn't look powerful or graceful 🤣, but I was out there running.

Happy running to you.

[Couchpotato2 in reply to MartinKH]

Haha yes I look in car windows, shop windows and well it’s not great. You are right, we are running and that’s all that matters.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10]

I hated the video they did of me when I went for hair analysis. The camera was bum level and all I could see was this large posterior wobbling with each step. Not at all the picture I had in my head.

Did it help your running style/posture!

[Coddfish Graduate10 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

The autocorrect of gait to hair made me laugh. I have images of Rapunzel on a treadmill.

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10 in reply to Coddfish]

Bother, didn't see that. I'll have to leave it incorrectly ted now. This phone! I corrected now. Try again : uncorrected now!!! Bloody auto correct. You couldn't make it up.

[Couchpotato2 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

Haha I was thinking how long is your hairnl if they were filming your bum all the time!

[BaddieThePirate Graduate10]

Should have ended with a ?

[Couchpotato2 in reply to BaddieThePirate]

I hadn’t thought if that, was planning to do gait analysis post lockdown. Will have to be mentally prepared for it!

It’s a bit like in Briget Jones when she comes down then fireman’s pole

[Coddfish Graduate10]

I don’t think any of us like videos, voice recordings or photos of ourselves, we put them though some sort of distorting filter. To everyone else we probably look normal.

[Couchpotato2 in reply to Coddfish]

Yes a friend saw it and she said it wasnt terrible. I don’t think we see ourselves as others see us so i have to rely more on what my friends say