diff --git a/async-std/src/runtime.rs b/async-std/src/runtime.rs
index b5872ea135..8185b64b44 100644
--- a/async-std/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/async-std/src/runtime.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use futures_lite::future::FutureExt;
-use std::{future::Future, time::Duration};
+use std::{future::Future, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
 use trillium_server_common::{DroppableFuture, Runtime, RuntimeTrait, Stream};
 
 /// async-std runtime
@@ -89,6 +89,6 @@ impl AsyncStdRuntime {
 
 impl From<AsyncStdRuntime> for Runtime {
     fn from(value: AsyncStdRuntime) -> Self {
-        Runtime::from_trait_impl(value)
+        Arc::new(value).into()
     }
 }
diff --git a/server-common/src/runtime.rs b/server-common/src/runtime.rs
index 2a609162b2..8ba52e9046 100644
--- a/server-common/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/server-common/src/runtime.rs
@@ -26,19 +26,18 @@ impl Debug for Runtime {
     }
 }
 
+impl<R: RuntimeTrait> From<Arc<R>> for Runtime {
+    fn from(value: Arc<R>) -> Self {
+        Self(value)
+    }
+}
+
 impl Runtime {
     /// Construct a new type-erased runtime object from any [`RuntimeTrait`] implementation.
     pub fn new(runtime: impl RuntimeTrait) -> Self {
         runtime.into() // we avoid re-arcing a Runtime by using Into::into
     }
 
-    // in order to avoid re-arcing Runtime in new / into, we use this to actually construct the
-    // Runtime within From implementations on the runtime trait type
-    #[doc(hidden)]
-    pub fn from_trait_impl(runtime: impl RuntimeTrait) -> Self {
-        Self(Arc::new(runtime))
-    }
-
     /// Spawn a future on the runtime, returning a future that has detach-on-drop semantics
     ///
     /// Spawned tasks conform to the following behavior:
diff --git a/smol/src/runtime.rs b/smol/src/runtime.rs
index 20d26f0bf1..7aceceddb9 100644
--- a/smol/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/smol/src/runtime.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use futures_lite::{FutureExt, Stream, StreamExt};
 use std::{
     future::Future,
     pin::Pin,
+    sync::Arc,
     task::{Context, Poll},
     time::Duration,
 };
@@ -113,6 +114,6 @@ impl SmolRuntime {
 
 impl From<SmolRuntime> for Runtime {
     fn from(value: SmolRuntime) -> Self {
-        Runtime::from_trait_impl(value)
+        Arc::new(value).into()
     }
 }
diff --git a/testing/src/runtimeless/runtime.rs b/testing/src/runtimeless/runtime.rs
index 76643a2e63..b96c740151 100644
--- a/testing/src/runtimeless/runtime.rs
+++ b/testing/src/runtimeless/runtime.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use futures_lite::{future, Stream};
-use std::{future::Future, thread, time::Duration};
+use std::{future::Future, sync::Arc, thread, time::Duration};
 use trillium_server_common::{DroppableFuture, Runtime, RuntimeTrait};
 
 /// a runtime that isn't a runtime
@@ -49,11 +49,13 @@ impl RuntimeTrait for RuntimelessRuntime {
         future::block_on(fut)
     }
 }
+
 impl From<RuntimelessRuntime> for Runtime {
     fn from(value: RuntimelessRuntime) -> Self {
-        Runtime::from_trait_impl(value)
+        Arc::new(value).into()
     }
 }
+
 impl RuntimelessRuntime {
     /// Spawn a future on the runtime, returning a future that has detach-on-drop semantics
     ///
diff --git a/tokio/src/runtime.rs b/tokio/src/runtime.rs
index 6e21cd2264..c2a7a381ec 100644
--- a/tokio/src/runtime.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/runtime.rs
@@ -120,6 +120,6 @@ impl TokioRuntime {
 
 impl From<TokioRuntime> for Runtime {
     fn from(value: TokioRuntime) -> Self {
-        Runtime::from_trait_impl(value)
+        Arc::new(value).into()
     }
 }