Do you like to read Runner’s World magazine and learn new training techniques? Do you like to read shoe reviews before switching to a new pair of running shoes? Do you like to understand how coaches put training plans together? If so, you’re not alone.

A review of demographic information from registrants at both short distance and long-distance running events shows that runners have a higher education level than the average population. Runners are not only smart, but inquisitive and self-directed. Runners enjoy the process of assimilating information in a way that gives them a clear path. This is not only true of runners and training, but also runners who have been injured and want to get back to running. They don’t just want to be told to go right or left. Runners want to clear map and a clear path to get back to running.

Do you think it is ridiculous that you go to see a doctor, with an appointment and yet wait for hours? And then, to add insult to injury, after waiting the requisite unreasonable length of time, you actually only get to spend about 5 to 10 minutes with the doctor?

Is it just me, or does it seem silly that the doctor gives you one thing to try, like “decrease your running,” “take some time off,” or “ice your ankle” or "try this shoe insert"… and then says you have to come back again in a couple weeks for the next piece of advice?

Personally, I hate having my time wasted. And I think it’s reasonable to expect to spend far more time with the doctor, than you actually spend waiting. There is a reason they call it the “waiting room.”

Most of the runners I see specifically want advice from a doctor who is also a runner. Not just someone who says they know a lot about running injuries, but someone who actually applies that in their own life.

“Doc On the Run” is a running injury expert by any definition. He is invited to lecture at medical conferences on running injuries several times per year. He has authored a chapter in a Sports Medicine textbook. He literally wrote the book on Runner’s Heel Pain. He has presented his award winning research at medical conferences in the Unites States, Canada, New Zealand and Portugal. He has completed several marathons and is a 15-time Ironman Triathlon finisher with a personal best of 10:59:07. For his Ironman race performances in 2014, he received the 2015 Ironman All World Athlete distinction. He competed in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii in October 2015. His patients include multiple world champion triathletes, prior Olympic trials marathon runners, members of the U.S. Ski team and San Francisco Giants and professional Ironman triathletes. His online sports medicine podiatry practice focuses on keeping runners running.