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The long run is a central piece of marathon training for everyone from recreational marathoners all the way up to national-level competitors. There are a lot of reasons why distance runners, and marathoners in particular, do long runs; these include increasing mitochondrial and capillary density, improving leg strength and resilience to the pounding of a ... Read more
In the course of writing my previous article on tibial stress fractures, I did a lot of thinking and reading about the role of impact and leg stiffness in the genesis of injury. There’s a lot of back-and-forth on the subject, with few clear answers from the wealth of research that’s been done. Before we ... Read more
Two very different footstrikes captured on high-speed video This post is a bit behind the times, but I thought I'd get it out there regardless. This post is a short analysis which takes a look at the latest research from Daniel Lieberman's lab at Harvard University. Lieberman is, of course, famous for his paper on ... Read more
Since my mission to write a set of comprehensive articles detailing the most common running injuries (the “Injury Series” here on RunningWritings) has morphed into a colossal undertaking, I’ve decided to break things up a bit with a new occasional, hopefully weekly series entitled “Brief Thoughts,” which I intend to be shorter, less-scientific musings on ... Read more