Subject: Back pain while running Ok - since sometime in November I have been making the gradual change to being a more forefoot runner. I have been pretty successful with this and have trimmed a minute off of my mile times. The next step was to increase my turnover. As I have started to do this - for about the last 4 weeks - I have been getting pain in my mid-back (about where my elbows would align ). It is really a tightness and I am lead to believe that when I attempt to pick up the turnover, my upper body gets tense. If I lengthen the stride (which causes me to lose turnover poace and lose the forefoot strike ) I slow down but my back pain releases. I attempted to do a run where my stride was lengthened and the strike was more mid-foot, but I slowed way down when doing this. ? Fixes? Am I missing something in the technique? ??I ?s ? ?t ?h ?e ?r ?e ? ?a ? ?f ?o ?r ?m ? ?p ?r ?o ?b ?l ?e ?m ? ?o ?f ?r ? ?f ?i ?x ? ?w ?h ?e ?r ?e ? ??I ? ?c ?a ?n ? ?h ?e ?l ?p ? ?t ?o ? ?r ?e ?l ?a ??x? ?m?y? ?u?p?p?e?r? ?b?o?d?y???? |