Blending of Animation for Mixamo Character

Hello,

I am currently trying to get the Shoot Animation running while the Character is running forward. Hoewver, there are two Problems:

  1. If I get it to work, the Character looks leaned forward:

  1. The blnding will only work, if I start the Character running. If I start shooting, it wont Animate the running

Here are some screens of my AnimGraph and Event Graph inside my Animation Blueprint nad also of the Montage that is being played:

The bone in the Layered Blend by Bone is set to Spine

I did mange to get it to work:

This is my new Event Graph for the Animation, also make sure to properly make your Animation Montage Loop, by setting the section Default to follow itself, so it will create a loop: