Never happened. Fake news.
I’m still seeing what I first realised when watching Ali Brownlee run (not sure why he made me see it, Tamara Jewett was the same in IM New Zealand), then I looked a saw it in others. The great run Triathletes and the elite world class runners. Hard to not just mention one thing in a short message when there is an inter-relationship.
If I could only pick two points, themes, it would be as I already said, along with what probably enables that or leads to that or vice versa.
Happy Easter, 
need to unwind, and stop thinking as much.
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Progress no matter what, that’s what people take from that. The road to injury.
Question nothing, do as you’re told.
It works for some, I guess…
5 swims Mon-Fri, 6-7 bikes, and up to 10…10 runs, per week. “So, some double days obviously…” - AB
50/52 weeks per year.
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What is good form?
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Or not if you consider his injury history?
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that’s the simple guidance for those with a short attention span…
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hard to tell from that…
he had aspects of good form…but not enough for longevity…
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Looks better than @Poet
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It was loosely meant to be light hearted.
But in Joe’s case he regularly says one of his biggest obstacles to breaking 5 hours on a 70.3 is his running which I think he said hovers around the 2 hour mark. Then other times he acknowledges he doesn’t really run enough, often procrastinates or puts it off.
I’m also not say he should immediately do 80k weeks which would only end with one outcome.
But a consistent regular running program building both distance and intensity would likely work better for someone who’s running form is probably well ingrained for someone who I think is in M50? I know life gets in the way of training sometimes.
We can’t all have the running form of some of the athletes posted, their form is excellent but they’re Olympic and elite athletes where the small gains will probably matter. Yes, he can include some drills or maybe plyometrics or something if he’s given time.
But in my n=1 experience just building gradually helped me progress and I’m certainly not built like a distance runner and my form is probably influenced by years of playing football on mudbaths!
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Firstly, they are not all excellent.
Secondly, what is they do that Joex can’t?
Walk past a ‘Spoons?
(Just kidding 
+ applies to me equally 
)
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There’s no exclusivity between analysing form and building distance, I’m building up my running volume now.
Can we usefully change our form at an older age? I’ve not heard that we can’t. For some, myself included, having ‘something to work on’ keeps me present while running.
It’s very early days with this app. Two hastily recorded clips before my run session started, I’ll aim to record some in the middle or end of a session, over time. But the long and short - barring Jon’s incoming opinion - is there’s nothing terribly wrong.
From the recommended strength exercises, the arms indicate some kind of weakness in my upper back/shoulders which is funny as my physio prescribed strength exercise for a weakness in the same area about a year ago.
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Genuine question: is that great running form from the eliye athlete photos equally applicable for all body shapes and sizes?
Should someone at 85kg like me run with relatively the same form as Sir Mo at whatever weight he raced at?
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true, but correcting form and building distance might be more problematic…
possibly/probably although there may be limits induced by age/mobility/istory of injuries etc…
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these are just single images and so we might not be able to draw too many conclusions…however*…
that then is a key question and a great place to start.
*What can you learn from the images?
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I am interested in what this is all about, although don’t really have a scooby.
it looks like Mo and Eilish could do with a good pie, but apart from that I notice their push off foot is nearly vertical, meaning I guess the force of push off is mostly forwards?
Looking at a frame from Joex video , so is his push off foot 
But at the same phase, the elite athletes have a bent leading knee and their leading foot is swinging through high off the ground. I’m guessing this gives them a much greater stride distance - probably closer to 2 metres than 1 meter- they move further in the air before the leading foot plants ???
Assuming both have a similar cadence of around 170 strides per minute, this might kind of explain the gulf between elites like them and mortals like us?
Is this anywhere near? Even if it is, is it anything actionable??