19/07/2026
Didn’t love the hike. Loved the view.
Bookend 📷 Hannah
17/07/2026
Snippets from Bowerman Track Club camp
15/07/2026
Some absolutely wild (and dangerous) suggestions floating around at the moment.
Somehow the spine, with 24 vertebrae, is supposed to act like a bow (bow and arrow) which is a singular object that compresses and returns to shape… no, no it doesn’t.
04/07/2026
We keep chipping away.
Plenty of 800s
Some 200s
Mile
Good to see the fella building confidence in his body.
01/07/2026
Morning work and sounds around Holister with Bowerman Athlete Members 🚂🚩
01/06/2026
Archie is heavily involved in both football and cricket for Xavier and is in the Giants academy for football. Given the importance of running and in particular acceleration for both sports last week we spent some time working on it.
Whilst there is a very clear change in landing pattern to his running, at no point was it a focus of change. The focus was more on the force we want to create, the direction of the force and the timing of the movements.
The old pattern is the classic lower leg driven movement of trying to reach forward with a big movement and pull forward. The new way is about driving out of the ground, focusing on using the upper leg to push up and out, this creates a better knee drive and resultant landing.
Like anything this requires practice and repetition but the ability to implement the cue and feel when it goes wrong is critical in creating new habits.
15/05/2026
When the lower leg is the dominant movement it will result in what is commonly described as an overstride. This places the foot in front of the knee at landing creating a braking force.
When this occurs there will be a more prolonged sound at landing, sometimes presenting as a double sound as the heel hits then the mid foot. In extreme cases there will be a slapping sound as the midfoot hits the ground after the heel. The landing itself isn’t necessarily the problem but impact that the body has to absorb from the braking force and ground contact time.
With the reaching forward movement occurring the leg pulls backwards and on toe off it can create a scraping or ripping sound to create propulsion in order to maintain momentum. This flatter pull movement will put a lot of load into hamstrings and calf Achilles. When we are trying to create flight and get off the ground this direction of force isn’t as helpful as it could be.
15/05/2026