What’s the best running tip you’ve ever received?

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Joetta Clark · Answer

Thank you for asking the question about what is the best running tip I've ever received? I ran for over 30 years. So obviously, the lot of tips but I'm going to impart one of them with you that still resonates with me and it's regarding the break the cut in Iran, the 800 meters and we were staying lanes and break on the back straightaway and the tip was use the entire back straightaway diagonally to cut in. So, If I was in the outside Lanes, I wouldn't just make a quick left hand turn. I will use the whole back stretch, but I would come in with Force. I wouldn't come in as if I would just wanted to take my time. I would be direct and I would have Purpose with my diagonal cutting. So if anyone runs the 800 or an event where you have to cut in, use the whole back straightaway to cut in. But just don't lollygag make sure you have a point where you're trying to get to and Protect yourself with your elbows so you don't get cut off.

Gail Devers · Answer

OK, Josh. I actually love this question. It says, what's the best running tip you've ever received? So I was going through my Graves' disease. And one of the Olympic games in 1992, I couldn't feel-- I was still having some residual effects of feeling my feet or having the numbness that I was feeling in my legs and my feet. And I didn't run one of my rounds right. And so my coach comes up to me. And he's like, what happened? As I couldn't feel my feet. He was like, you could feel your hands, right? I was like, yeah. Yeah I'm good on my hands. He said, OK. Then, you better work the heck out of your arms and tell your feet to keep up. So that's the best tip. Because, I always tell people now, you know your arms tell your legs what to do. So work your arms and tell your feet to keep up. That's my best tip. Thanks for the question.

Keturah Orji · Answer

I think the best writing tip I ever received was in high school from my high school coach and I'm a jumper. So, my running tips a little bit different than sprinters, but I would say when she told me that, like if you keep moving, your arms, your legs and to keep moving, I have always referred to that. So, like in the hardest workouts, whenever I'm doing wedding, I just like I can't go anymore. I always just tell myself, just move your arms, like if your legs can't move, move your arms because if you keep moving your arms, your legs will keep going with you. And so, I think sometimes people underestimate how Important, your arm movement is to helping your legs come up to 90 degrees and helping them to keep going to, but really to keep pumping your arms, that's going to help. That's gonna be half the battle for running.

Isaac Jean-Paul · Answer

I'm still growing at as a sprinter. So every tip that I receive is essentially a great tip received but I would say, the biggest thing that I received in my sprinting career was probably the arm movement and how important it is to move your arms. You can only go as fast as your legs can only go as fast as your arms move. So, if your arms is moving at a steady steady paste in your legs are going to move at a steady Pace, but if your arms are Blowing that thing through your legs is gonna blow that thing through. So a lot of tips been received but the biggest thing is the usage of arms.

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