Hi, this is Debbie Boyle's coach at Mojo for Running with podcast episode number 90 running

You may have done running drills when you were in school or maybe with a coach or you may

have seen other runners doing them or maybe you happen to see people doing some kind of weird movement that look like a strange

variation of running and didn't realize that they were doing running drills.

If you weren't doing drills, at least once a week now, I hope that after listening to this

episode, you'll start including them in your training regimen

because there's much to gain and, well, they're fun. There are probably 20 very common running

drills, maybe twice that many. But my purpose here is to explain some of the best ones,

why I recommend them, and how they'll benefit you, when to do them and when not to do them.

First, let's talk about form.

Sometimes our running form suffers because some of our muscles are not as strong as they need to be,

and sometimes we have fallen into a pattern of running with poor form,

which sort of gets our muscles into the groove of moving the wrong way.

You know the old saying, practice makes perfect? Well, I don't think that's true. Seriously,

how many of us will ever have perfect form? But it makes sense for all of us to work towards

the best possible form, right? So I prefer this saying, practice makes

permanent, meaning the more we practice good form, the more of the time we'll do it automatically.

I mean when we're not thinking about it, because really, how much of the time when we're running

do we really want to be concentrating on form?

That's kind of boring.

Whether I'm running, if I'm running alone, I'm probably off my mind as thinking about who knows what.

When I'm running with my friends and someone is telling a great story, maybe about what happened at their three-year-old daughter's dance recital the day

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