Perpetual Motion Coaching

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Join us :
🗓️Thursday June 4th
🍻Bar open from 7pm
🎥 Film showing at 7.30pm
🏘️Roseberry Road Studios, Bath

🎟️Tickets at perpetualmotioncoaching.com or use link in bio.

We just love day!

Seeing so many people showing up and giving it their best shot. The fast 💨, the slower, and all those in between, we loved seeing and cheering all of you out there. 🪘🔔

A special mention to all the PMC runners - 12 of you flying the flag out there🥳

👏 to Helen who ran in a little black dress,raising money for and Zoe who ran for 👏

Very interesting, agree.

This is a very common thought, and something I’m challenged with in clinic often, but it’s worth pausing before assuming your running style is the problem.

Most runners don’t have a “broken” gait.

In fact, running mechanics are largely self-organised. As people train consistently, the body gradually settles into a movement pattern that suits their anatomy, strength, injury history, and training load.

Multiple pieces of research suggests runners often become more economical simply by running regularly, without consciously trying to change their technique.

Another interesting angle is the variation in assessment accuracy by coaches and professionals.

For example, we often blame economy of movement as a cause or culprit of some problems, yet economy is surprisingly difficult to judge visually.

In one study, 121 experienced running coaches were asked to rank runners based on how economical they thought they were by watching them run. None of the coaches ranked them all correctly, and only 6% managed to identify three correctly (Cochrum et al., 2021). In other words, what looks efficient isn’t necessarily what is efficient, and we can’t spot it easily.

What about injury risk? biomechanical measures during running did not reliably predict who would go on to get injured, so the idea that we can simply “spot a risky gait pattern” and fix it to prevent injury isn’t well supported either.

That doesn’t mean gait analysis is useless.

It can be very helpful when someone is already injured. In those situations, small temporary adjustments to stride or cadence can shift load away from a sensitive structure and help a runner return to training more comfortably while the underlying issue settles.

But for healthy runners looking to improve performance or “prevent” injury, the bigger levers are usually much simpler: training load, progression, recovery, strength, and consistency.

Your running style might not be something that needs “fixing”. More often, it’s something your body has already figured out.

Unfortunately there are too many people on my side of the fence who don’t understand this (or don’t want to understand it!) perpetuating the myth.

Often I will look at gait as part of my analysis, but it’s not a pivotal area for the majority.

✨Exciting news✨

🍿Perpetual Motion Coaching is hosting the inaugural Trail Running Film Festival in Bath.

Expect to be immersed in breathtaking landscapes, inspiring stories and marvel at the strength of the human spirit in this collection of the finest trail and ultra running films of 2026.

Tickets are already being snapped up so don't delay - it's set to be a sell out evening at Roseberry Road Studios on Thursday 4th June 2026.

For tickets:
https://www.perpetualmotioncoaching.com/event-details/trail-running-film-festival-world-tour-is-coming-to-bath

Does anyone else find this...You have these amazing times, life changing some of them, you want to keep hold of the emotions, keep the feelings alive and yet so quickly they slip into the past. Time has its wicked way and in what feels like no time at all, they happened months/years ago?

Well this week Maya and I took control of time and immersed ourselves back into the amazing time we had on the Everest Trail Race last November. It has been pure joy to dive back into the photos, to laugh about all the little moments, be in awe once again at the beauty of the country, and to feel once again the immense privilege to have experienced such remoteness.

'Tails from the Nepalese trails' was an evening regaling our journey and experience on the Everest Trail Race(ETR) in the company of friends and clients.

This race is a truly extraordinary event. You run/walk through unspoilt areas, immersed in the daily lives of the Nepalese, away from the crowds, high up in the foot hills of the Himalayas and surrounded by immense, beautiful white peaks. The generous daily cut off to finish the stage is daylight, if you miss cut off one day you can continue the next (injuries aside) - the organisation doesn't want you to miss out! The crew are second to none, the organisation faultless. Multiday events are expensive, there is no getting away from that, but this one is priced fairly and undercuts a lot of the bigger ones. I would highly recommend it to anyone.

If you have a whisper of wonder 🤔, a grain of 'could I?'💭Then please get in touch. Don't miss an opportunity of a life time.

Let's go Charlie - number 851 at the 100mile race starting at 1pm today! Get on line and set yourself up for a weekend of dot watching. There's a cracking race going to unfold...

Nothing about this race is easy, the terrain is for ever up and down, it's currently raining and the forecast is for a lot more of the same, add to that pretty unforgiving strong winds and paths that are already saturated, very muddy and boggy!

But hey, you don't sign up to this race ever thinking it's gonna be balmy, sunny, or a walk in the park! Luckily, Charlie is also tough, he's well prepared, he REALLY wants to finish, and all those things together, give him the best chance of taking the race head on.

Go strong Charlie 💪🏻

What an epic evening organised by . Bringing all the Bath running communities together to run around our stunning city raising money for and banishing any blue Monday blues.

Brilliant idea, superbly executed and hugely enjoyable!

They did it- she did it! Fern kissed the wall of the Pub in Kirk Yetholm, alongside Anna, who she had been with from really early on in the race.

What a journey, 164 hrs of everything the British winter could throw at them.

Incredible effort from both, memories for a life time, the knowledge that you pushed through the darkest of moments and preserved - coming out of it all victorious!

Huge congratulations from all of us Fern. 👏👏

Proving, as ever we are stronger together!

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Joe and Sam ran the Country to Capital 43miler on the weekend. Neither of them had run this distance before. This race formed part of their build to the Marathon des Sables in April, where the longest day sees them run 100km in one go.

Cracking results for both of them, lots of lessons learnt and many take aways. They are bang on track with their training 💪🏻

She has done it! Kate has finished the winter Spine Challenger South, 108 miles from Edale to Hawes.

Kate is no stranger to the Spine races. She has been building her confidence and skill level over the years.

Whilst Kate has been a runner for years and has tackled many big and bold ultra events, more recently things had derailed. She has had a few really hard years that despite all the training she just wasn't seeing results. She and I knew things just weren't right. Once we found out why we were able to start the rebuild.

It has taken perseverance and time to work with her body to allow it to adjust and find its rhythm again.
It's been during this time that Kate has volunteered as part of the Spine family in her capacity as a doctor. She was there supporting me at the finish line of my 2024 Spine race. 😁

Then last summer Kate ran the Spine Challenger North, add to this her commitment to running and training in general and to endless training runs along the Spine route, And you have a woman who not only finishes the 108 miles in winter battered by every kind of weather imaginable but someone who's opening line on the phone call was 'I did it and loved it'.

That line isn't often said on the completion of something like this. It shows me that she was truly prepared in mind and body but also it shows gratitude.

It's a privilege to enter these events and give of yourself fully whilst backed by incredible volunteers, family and friends. And also to have a body and mind capable of doing these tough things, to have the financial wherewithal and the freedom as a woman to choose and run free.

Go you Kate, I hope this euphoria stays for a long time. You deserve it:)

On a cold, cold winter day this last Saturday, James took on the Fan Dance. It's the original 24km SAS test march involving Pen y Fan and in military style carrying a 35lb rucksack.

The dropout rate ahead of the start was high with the weather conditions especially challenging but he stuck to plan. His micro spikes proving invaluable as runners slipped and fell on the path. Finishing in a very creditable 4.26 and best of all having loved it!

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