How to Keep Good Running Form on Your Long, Slow Runs

Run stronger, smarter, and more efficiently with the Runner’s World Guide to Running Form. Some good news: These form mishaps ...
Outside

The Quest for Ideal Running Form

In 2011, two years after his book Born to Run launched the barefoot boom, Christopher McDougall offered a clarification. “The ‘one best way’ isn’t about footwear,” he wrote in The New York Times ...
Self

What Does ‘Proper’ Running Form Really Look Like?

If you’ve just started pounding the pavement, you probably had this thought cross your mind soon after lacing up: What does proper running form look like? Am I running “wrong”?! Since you probably ...
Runner's World

Your Stride Is Uniquely Yours. But You Can Still Make It Stronger—Here’s How.

In its purest form, running is a very simple, approachable sport. To log some miles, you just have to lace up your shoes, head out your front door, and start running—nothing else required. Pretty ...