Tarun Nikhil
Tarun finished 11th in the Mile at Nike Indoor Nationals — one of the fastest high-school fields in the country — and then spent the next year injured instead of racing. A season became a year of rehab, and the hardest part was that nothing in his training told him it was coming: splits, mileage and shoes all looked fine right up until they didn't.
The things that would have shown the pattern building — how his hips held up late in a workout, whether his stride stayed even as he tired — are measured routinely in gait labs and almost never available to the runners who need them most. Sauntle is the tool he wanted before that year, not after it: the same measurements, from a clip filmed on a phone at the side of a track.