SHOULD I TRY IT?
Words Laura Potter. Photographs iStock
Ten and a half million of us now run regularly – that’s an awful lot of feet pounding on an awful lot of pavements. Experts estimate that the force you send through your joints as you run is between four and seven times your body weight, so that’s an awful lot of injury potential, too. The idea of a biomechanical analysis is to evaluate your running technique, usually using video analysis, to identify any weaknesses or ineiciencies in your running style that could make you prone to injury – or prevent you from bagging a PB.