Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.

And now your host, Tina Muir.

Hello, this is Tina Muir.

Thank you for joining me again for another episode of the Runners Connect

Run to the Top Podcast.

I am very excited about today's episode and I

know you're going to learn a lot and love it too. But first I want to share a

backstory with you if that's okay. About a year ago my coach and I were at a breaking point. I just

finished the Chicago marathon and after two out of two marathons crashing and burning and not because

of mistakes I was making, we knew we needed to do something big.

It was time to fix the one thing I've been putting off for years, my running form.

We researched for hours until we came up with a clinic that was about six hours away.

Was it worth driving six hours to have someone look at my running form?

We thought about it for a few days, kind of went back and forth, but in the end we decided it was.

We made the trip and I left the assessment barely able to speak. My mind was just spinning so fast I could barely talk. I did what they recommended and I worked really

hard at it. So fast forward a year I've been back to the clinic and I intend to go back a third time. But what is this place?

Well it's the University of Virginia Speed Clinic. Now this podcast episode is not

going to just be about the clinic,

although I would highly recommend it to anyone who can actually make that trip.

At $350 for a two and a half hour assessment, I'd say that's a pretty good deal. However, I know for many of you,

that's just not realistic traveling distance, especially if you're overseas.

The focus of this podcast is running form and how making small changes in your day-to-day

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