Question: Is there anything to do with engineering in running?

Ted Burke answered on 7 Mar 2019:

There are some pieces of electronic technology that a lot of runners use. Maybe the most common one now is a GPS watch. It records where you’ve run, how fast you went, how many steps you took and so on. A lot of them also use an optical sensor to track heart rate. Some runners carefully plan the intensity of their training sessions with a target heart rate for different types of training. They can use their watch (sometimes with a chest strap) to measure their heart rate while they run and adjust their effort to achieve a particular rate. A lot of runners also upload the GPS data from their runs onto a cloud service like Strava so that they can view a record of all their runs online and see how many kilometres they’re clocking up.

There is also some interesting engineering work going on in running shoes – analysing how different types of shoe affect the way a person runs and the forces on his/her feet, legs, knees, hips, etc.