Joanne Smith helps runners rebuild confidence after falls on rocky or muddy terrain. She was hit in the sternum by a railing while road running, an accident that pushed her toward trail running and shaped her approach to teaching others how to handle hazardous trails.
So the inspiration for building confidence on dangerous trails came from, like I mentioned before, a few people that had said that they'd lost their confidence after having a fall or after slipping running down a dangerous rocky hill, or whether it's a muddy hill or a muddy verge or whatever it might be. I know we've probably all got examples of times where we've, we've slipped on our bums or We've had accidents, and in all honesty, this is why I became a trail runner, because my worst accident running was actually running on the road where I ran into the pedestrian crossing railings and it hit me straight in the middle of my sternum, and wow, that was one of my most memorable accidents out running.
