asics running

It is difficult to know where to start with our guest on this episode of SHOEphoria.

She honed her distance running craft as a cross country champion winning two silver medals (2002 Dublin, long race; 2003 Lausanne, long race) in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

She then switched focus to the marathon distance and set her best time of 2:19:36 at the 2006 London Marathon. 

This time stands to this day as the American record.

She is an Olympic Bronze medallist.

She holds or has held numerous other American distance records, including the women’s road 10 mile, women’s road 15km and women’s road 8 km, and formally the women’s half marathon and women’s 10,000 metres.

Track and Field magazine named her the Best female marathon runner in the world in 2006.

Deena Kastor is quite simply one of the best female distance runners of all time, and I have been privileged to have know her for many years.

Deena has a unique insight into athletic footwear, as a long term ASICS sponsored athlete and Ambassador, a role she has performed with great distinction and grace.

In this fascinating episode of SHOEphoria, Deena shares her knowledge of what it is to be an Olympian, how much difference footwear can make to an elite athlete…and what happens when you get injured. She also shares with us the role of mental toughness for the endurance athlete, something.. she has written the book on (link below).

https://www.amazon.com.au/Let-Your-Mind-Run-Thinking/dp/1524760757

Welcome to episode 10 of SHOEphoria, the wonderful Deena Kastor! 

Motion control features in running shoes are a thing of the past but we can't seem to shake it in retail or clinician referrals.

Paul Griffin and Simon Bartold discuss the disconnect that exists between running shoe development and what is being advised to consumers via running retail and referring health clinicians.

We discuss some results from a recent Bartold Clinical running industry survey where 200 responders, mainly made up of referring health practitioners, told us what we already knew.... the landscape is a 'dogs breakfast'.

The message is clear, It's time to move on and talk a new evidence based language and those who do not adapt can expect to have poorer outcomes and risk losing the most valuable thing to us all, consumer and patient trust.

Education is the key and we hope to provide Bartold Clinical listeners and followers with the tools to stay on top of the latest evidence based developments from brands and segue this to retail and health clinicians.

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If you are wondering who we are, Bartold Clinical is an educational platform that delivers evidence based lower limb sports medicine and athletic footwear education to a global audience.

You can read more about your podcast host and guest below;

https://www.bartoldclinical.com/about/about-simon-bartold/

https://www.bartoldclinical.com/about/about-paul-griffin/

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