A backward running champion

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go when you're going

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backwards you can really just take a

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step back literally and enjoy what

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you're

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[Music]

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doing hi I'm Aaron Yoder I'm a backwards

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Runner I have the world record for the

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fastest smile ran backwards my fastest

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backwards smile time is 5 minutes and 54

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seconds I've been running Ford for over

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20 years I started running competitively

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when I was in elementary school and then

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ran on scholarship during my early

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20s I ran so much that I sustained a

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knee

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injury my uh doctor told me to stop

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running and I really didn't want to stop

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so I knew I had to make some sort of

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[Music]

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change retro running or backwards

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running is where you're literally just

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running in reverse and there's no impact

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on my knee I run backwards everywhere I

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run backwards on the treadmill I run

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backwards on the track and also out on

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country