Hey there. You. Yeah you. It’s a Monday kind of Tuesday, but I’m not letting it get me down. I’m heading out for a Fantasy Football Draft and some wings and beer, so life isn’t but so bad today. 🙂
I went out for a 6 miler this morning and to be honest, I didn’t feel all that great about it. I was alone and it was dark. What to do, what to do? When in doubt and not feeling great, RUN A PROGRESSION RUN (I wrote about my love for these long ago. Read it here if you’re bored.)

The progression run was just what I needed. I went from feeling kinda bleh to feeling pretty good! As I started to feel pretty good, I started to get to striding out a little and moving my arms a little more. Then I remembered someone long ago (when I was blowing up late in a race) to “run with my arms and my legs would follow.”
At the time I thought, “Yeah sure. Just run with my arms. Riiiiiight.” The thing is though, IT’S TRUE.
I experimented a little and really focused on being quick to swing my arms and my cadence really did seem to follow it. Weird.
I ended up liking to swing my arms almost in a circular motion. I envisioned the wheels of a train, just chug chug chugging along.

So anywho, I’m not an advocate of thinking too much about HOW you’re running when you’re running, but sometimes a conscious effort to run a certain way (like quick cadence) can become the way you run without thinking about it if you do it enough. Coach says, “Run with your arms!”
definitely run with your arms! It is pretty amazing how the legs follow. And ha ha! I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who feels like a train when doing that 🙂
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I really put myself out there by admitting it. 😂
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