Tag: running form

Recovering from your marathon, Runners World Magazine offers some good advice

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Recovering from your marathon, Runners World Magazine offers some good advice We are at the end of the marathon season, and now many runners are looking forward to next spring and summer. While it is normal to have soreness from your half or full marathon, a four week period of recovery makes sense, however, you may also look at it differently; was my body in good enough physical condition and is my soreness a consequence of my form becoming problematic due to fatigue of other factors I did not understand at the time. If you think that is a huge Read More »

NY Times discusses running form. My 2 cents

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NY Times discusses running form. My 2 cents By William D Charschan DC, CCSP, author Cheating Mother Nature, what you need to know to beat chronic pain A new article by Gretchen Reynolds of the NY Times health section discusses new studies that suggest the more we run, the better our form gets. While statistics make good stories if you spin them well enough if this were true, then why are there running injuries? Most people would never think this way but most running injuries are from form, and many of these injuries happen to elite level runners who have Read More »