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Distance Running skills
18 skills, beginner to advanced. 15 of them can be checked from a phone video with honest form analysis — no fake scores.
Beginner
5Run Tall
Good running posture is simple: run tall. An upright, relaxed body lets you breathe well a…
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Cadence
Cadence is how many steps you take per minute, and it's the single most useful thing to kn…
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Relaxed Arms
Your arms set your rhythm and balance your stride, but they should stay relaxed — tension …
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Stop Overstriding
Overstriding is the most common and most important running form mistake to fix. It means y…
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Easy Breathing
Breathing well keeps you relaxed and supplies the oxygen your muscles need. For easy runni…
Intermediate
5Footstrike Facts
There's a lot of myth around foot strike — heel, midfoot, or forefoot. Here's what the evi…
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Landing Under You
If there's one thing that matters more than foot strike, it's this: landing with your foot…
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Soft Knees
Your legs are springs, and a slightly bent knee at landing is what lets them absorb impact…
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Arm Drive
Your arms do more than stay relaxed — they set your rhythm and add power. Your arms and le…
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Rhythmic Breathing
Rhythmic breathing means pairing your breaths to your steps — and using an ODD pattern so …
Advanced
5Vertical Oscillation
Vertical oscillation is how much your body bounces up and down with each stride. Every cen…
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Ground Contact Time
Ground contact time is how long your foot stays on the ground each step. Here's the honest…
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Hip Extension
Hip extension — driving your leg back behind your body at push-off — is the engine of runn…
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Uphill Form
Running uphill efficiently is a skill. The big mistake runners make is bending forward at …
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Downhill Form
Downhills offer free speed — but only if you don't fight them. The instinct is to lean bac…
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Insane
3Pacing & Negative Splits
How you distribute your effort across a race often matters more than your fitness. The sin…
The Kick
The kick is your finishing sprint — the surge over the last stretch of a race. Done right,…
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Running Economy
Running economy is how much energy you burn at a given pace — the hidden factor that lets …
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