Last night I had the opportunity to hear Golden Harper speak.  He is a noted runner, exercise physiologist, and the co-founder of Altra Running Shoes.  He comes from a family of notable runners who happen to own a running store in Orem.  His parents always ran the St George marathon every year, so at age 9 he started begging to run it as well.  Of course, they said no, but qualified that by saying he would have to prove he could do the distance.  He then ran the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim!  At age 10 he started running St. George marathon every year, doing the rim to rim to rim run first as training.  At age 13 he broke 2:45. 
    His talk was on form and running injury prevention as well as on how he developed Altra shoes.  He's an amazing guy.  I told him I'd be running St George this year, and he said he'd be there, as well.
     On today's run I concentrated on his tips for form.