Flight running

As its name suggests is the moment when, thanks to action by the powerful muscles of the body not only the leg, the corridor is in the air, without any support and moving forward and upward and then downward and forward.

It is the difference between walking, jogging or running, in these cases the runner or triathlete always has one foot in contact with the ground.

Triathletes less trained or beginners often performed a kind of jogging instead of running itself. This has a much lower energy consumption, but the difference in speed between jogging and running is great for someone who wants to improve their results, whether amateur or competition wants to do with the phase of running trot.

Continuing with the theme of the center of gravity, knowing that it is a bit complicated to understand, but, as we said in earlier chapters, running is natural and easy technique, explaining the processes it is not so. And in this explanation biomechanics of running the displacement of the center of gravity during different phases makes the difference between a technique more or less effective.

A triathlete has to seek efficiency, a good relationship between velocity and energy, much more than a marathon, not only because in addition to training in the running have to train on the water and the bike, but because the burden causes cycling in the muscles and the difference in movements that carries energy expenditure and the economy of what remains to finish the test is crucial.

Start with a flight loud and long to finish trotando it is hardly positive. For this a triathlete at the time of making the flight have to try your center of gravity does not rise too much, not to make the parable for a correro half background in athletics. It has to find a more vertical movement and parallel to the ground but without losing too much speed.

We must not forget that during the flight corridor has no momentum so that the loss of speed is very big, too long a flight caused by too strong upward momentum in the previous phase, we will get back to the soil with low speed and with strong support to the ground, only good for velocistas.

During this phase the hip flexion gets its maximum so they can stretch the leg looking for a new contact with the ground, as we saw in chapter of this support is not fully stretch ever.

La fase de vuelo en la carrera