High Country Sports: 5430 Sprint Triathlon

The annual 5430 Sprint Triathlon is held every year at the Boulder Reservoir. Running, Biking and swimming are covered as well as a look at the sport itself.

Cameron Dye Triathlon Photoshoot with Hardcastle Photography and Allen Krughoff

Hardcastle Photography Photoshoot with professional triathlete Cameron Dye. Equipment used: Nikon Cameras Elinchrom and Hensel Lighting Cameron’s Sponsors: Breeze Bars Kestrel Pearl Izumi Shimano Clif Shot

Five Tips From Chirunning

 

 

Danny Dreyer, a marathon runner Ultra America and the Tai Chi practitioner, created a method of execution called ChiRunning, which combines the inner focus and flow of Tai Chi with the power and energy of operation. Here are five tips that ChiRunning has helped many runners begin to learn to run without injury:

 

1. Danny explains that Master Zhu – his Tai Chi teacher in Boulder, Colorado – said to keep your spine straight, but for the rest of the body relax and let the chi flow "like water through a pipe. In Chinese philosophy, "chi" is the vital energy or life force. This principle applies not only to Tai Chi, but to run too.

2. An efficient operation is not leg strength and leg speed. You have to let your body be removed from the center and allow the legs to simply go for walks. Let your speed is a function of their ability to relax more deeply, not their ability to push harder.

3. Let go of the pain, "No, no gain" attitude that many Westerners have toward the sport. Instead, the clear objective of establishing a communication link between mind and body. If you pay close attention to your body will learn what can and can not do. This is called "Body Sensing. By developing a good system of communication with your body can teach new skills and habits, without exaggeration and therefore hurting.

4. Lean slightly forward when running, about a quarter of an inch, and let gravity do some work for you.

5. The land at the foot instead of mid-heel, thus preventing the movement of breaking the heel, which is common in most of the runners.