Running on trails tests our entire system. Awareness, agility, joint and muscle range, control through that range, and a stable platform is imperative to tap into a flowing, efficient rhythm over uneven, undulating terrain.
Achieving this efficient running ‘flow state’ is much easier over a flat road surface with less variables. Running on a tricky trail versus the road is like surfing a tricky, shifty break compared to surfing a uniform consistent wave at Kelly Slater’s home wave making machine.
If athletes are time crunched the first sessions that are dropped are the non-running running is required.
