It's been a while since this subject has been added to, but if you're still looking, sign up to newsletters from the Chi Running website at http://www.chirunning.com/  There are also Chi Running workshops that you can go on, http://www.corerunning.co.uk/page3.htm  They do get booked up fairly quickly.  Am booked on one soon, hoping that will enable me to "get it" fully, as it is a bit brain draining trying to get all body parts doing something different to how they have been moving / running.  Have got my first running injury trying to change too much, too soon.... the motto is gradual progress, must remember that. 

Ian, where did you get your metronome to measure your cadence? Is their a special running one available? Just getting back inot my running and wanted to start back with chi techniques as this seemed to bring big improvements last year. Cadence is the one thing I have never measure though even though I do try to keep it high even at slowere paces.

Hello has anybody got any futher tips/advice  on this subject.

Just went for my first run with a metronome, turns out I have been running with a higher cadence than I thought! Set to beep at 75 bpm as recommended in the book, and the run felt much easier than usual. I also felt more able to relax into the lean.  Ran 5k in 30:27, (which is good for me) with energy to spare. :o)

Been trying the chi running.  Not sure if I am doing it right but concentrating on relaxing my legs and ankles and leaning but find I seem to be landing on the flat of my feet, well thats what it feels like anyway.  I will persevere and see if it helps

Read up to and including most of Chapter 4 over the last couple of days so this morning I thought I would try some of the Chi techniques out on my planned 5 mile easy run.

Refreshed my memory this morning with the book so I was 20 minutes late out the house at 04:50 instead. Done all of the body alignment, checked the lean, hips even, loosen the calfs and ankles, stand on a gallon can of B & Q best emulsion and strike the one legged heron pose (not really), and away I went.

Whilst running I carried out some adjustment to knee rotation and keeping feet aligned whilst maintaining the lean and at the same time trying to raise my feet higher.

One thing I did notice is that I need to loosen my ankles more whilst running as I experienced aching toes after my run meaning I was pushing off from them as opposed to the forefoot.

I'll have another crack at it tomorrow morning as I have a 6.5 mile easy run again and hopefully I can put some of it into practice with my next 10k race being the Shobnall midsummer at 19:30 on Tuesday. 

Did a hill session today and tried out this technique! Not sure if the hills were the steepness warranted but it did seem to help - having the feet at an angle to the hill meant there was less pressure on the back of the leg, mainly calves and back of heel and was suprised I wasn't tired out after the 3rd repition of the hill! Don't think I have perfected it but sort of made sense - lets see how the legs are for tomorrows long run, they feel absolutely fine at the moment 2 hours after the session!

Thanks Ian, I did think it might be a trip hazard if I had to cross one foot over the other to keep running in the same general direction, I'm very good a tripping over my own feet! Only one way to find out and try it next week....

I think what you are supposed to do is instead of running with your feet pointing straight up the hill, you turn slightly sideways, as if you were going to run diagonally across the pathway. 

Imagine you are on a large clock face, your body and feet would be pointing to 1 o'clock (or 11 o'clock), but you would be running in the direction of 12 o'clock. To do this, you have to cross one foot over the other a little, but provided you aren't turned too much (i.e facing 3 o'clock!) it shouldn't be much of a trip hazard. I didn't quite understand what he was saying about the arms though. Will have to re-read that bit.

He suggests that you switch sides a few times if the hill is long - so if you start out facing 1 o'clock, switch to facing 11 o'clock halfway up, to balance things out and avoid overworking one side.

I'll be doing my first hill session next week, so will also give it a go!

Am trying to use the Chi running techniques for running uphill and downhill. I've read the technique for steep uphill running and it says to run sideways? I couldn't quite work out what this meant from the illustrations and description in the book! Can anyone shed any light on this or have you tried it? I have a hill session planned in next week with a fairly steepish hill so it make fall into place then (or I might fall trying to run sideways!) but any expansion in this technique before then would be useful!