Welcome to episode 459 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erikson, and today I interview Matt Silver.

Matt is a physical therapist, runner, and author of the book Built to Run,

and in this interview he peels back the layers of the underlying causes of typical running injuries

and discusses how to prevent and overcome issues and injuries by identifying and tackling the root causes behind them.

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now without any further ado let's go into the interview with Matt Silver.

Welcome to that Traffler show, Matt. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, I'm good,

good as well, excited for this chat. And let's not waste any more time. Let's just dive straight into

things, but we start with an

introduction of yourself. Can you tell us more about who you are and your background in running and

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