There is correct form. Land on your forefoot and make sure that your hips are forward. Keeps you arms low and don't swing them from side to side. Bad form can slow you down a lot, particularly on the track.

I was having a discussion on form with my then future son-in-law at a college invitational. I was pointing out mistakes runners were making in the slow heat of the 3000. But, during the fast heat, I couldn't find anything to point out. It seemed that the biggest difference between the fast heat and the slow heat was form.

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just one more question: who would be the best person to teach me more about running form? My coach, my foot specialist, or my school's physical trainer? Im not quite sure who to turn to on this matter. I know for a fact my form is horrible, but im not sure what it's supposed to look like, do you think my trainer or doctor might watch me and analyze things??

I think I could go on all day about proper running form but Richard 21142 has summed up good form in his discription of the invitational race he attended.
All racing is about speed, achieving a time target or finishing in front of another competitor. Speed by itself, i.e. running fast or far will not produce speed, on the contrary you get tired very quickly, good running FORM will fall apart and all you do is practice bad physical motion.
This applies to sprinters as well as distance runners; the longer the distance the more it applies.
The pre-requisite is strength in all parts of the body.

Your legs are strengthened anytime you move about on them. You need sufficient strengh in your arms to act in harmony with your legs also your organs ... heart lungs and kidneys also have to work harder and more EFFICIENTLY to cope with the extra stress.

Imbalance and in-adequate strength for a given aim will make you fall short.
Running movements are formed from specific skills and they depend on the effective execution of strengths specific to them.
This takes time to develop and requires (under the direction of your COACH) attention to SPECIFIC DRILLS in order to support the skill which you may need to develop at a given time.
Basically you should be looking smoothness in the execution, a flowing movement, supported in the case of distance runners by areobic capacity and efficency.

I could go on a lot longer on this subject but I've rabbited on long enough.
good luck "Mate"
Mick W.

One way i train my form is barefoot running. I have talked to Joe Henderson and other people about it, plus it is recommended by Michael Yessis.

I tape up my big toes and balls of my feet because the skin has a tendancy to rip off.

Email me if have further questions... rtmyqf@mizzou.edu

no, I run on the track, and you would be surprised how deadly those suckers are. I once completed a 2 miler on the track just to find my big toe didn't have skin on the bottom of it...