Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Try for a sense of falling forward and just catching yourself. Plenty of follow-through behind you. Let your foot come up high with a well-bent knee. Let your hips move forward in a straight line, not up and down.
Find a grassy steep hill and run down it. We used to do this in track and it was pretty consistent to see the people with the quickest run down the steep hill had the fastest top speed.