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Injury & Recovery

130 articles — Pieces on the most common running injuries — runner’s knee, plantar fasciitis, IT-band syndrome, stress fractures — and on rehabilitation, return-to-running, and what runners learn the hard way.

Vol. 5, No. 6 · 2001 Matters of the Sole WANT TO cut way down on your running injuries while saving money and maybe even going faster? Sounds great, eh? A bit too good to be… Richard Englehart · 19 min read M&B Vol. 5, No. 6 · 2001 Quality Seconds This article is for those occasions when, for whatever perverse reason, you've decided to do two marathons with 12 weeks or less between them. Though doing… Pete Pfitzinger · 18 min read Vol. 4, No. 3 · 2000 Marathon Training: More From Less WELCOME TO the third part of this special five-part series on optimal marathon training. While the first two parts dealt with general training principles and the… Guy Avery · 20 min read Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 The Painful Heel Over time, the constant pulling of the fascia on the heel bone can cause a bone spur to form on the bottom of the heel (see… Perry H. Julien · 12 min read Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 The Ergogenic Answer Some History on Ergogenic Aids Throughout history endurance athletes have used countless ergogenic aids in attempts to enhance performance. For example, blood doping was popular in… Melvin H. Williams · 13 min read Vol. 6, No. 1 · 2002 Running Weaves Its Way Through the Literature of the Ages, Suspending Time and Distance. Part 1 of 5 INTRODUCTION: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, KIDNAPPED (1886) By what I have read in books, I think few that have held a pen were ever really wearied, or… Roger Robinson · 26 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 Too Darn Hot? WE ALL know runners who never miss a day out on the roads. Torrential downpour, three feet of snow, fever, cold—it doesn't matter. The Run or… William O. Roberts · 16 min read Vol. 5, No. 5 · 2001 The Long and Winding Road THE SEED of the ambition to run from the northernmost point on the island of Great Britain, John O'Groats, to the southern extremity, Land's End, was… Editorial Staff · 24 min read Vol. 5, No. 5 · 2001 My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon As example #2, I had thought I'd be doing this race with my Illinois coach and mentor, Chuck Bundy. Chuck—who, by the way, is a bona… Editorial Staff · 26 min read M&B · 2001 My Most Unforgettable: July/August 2001 When I was eight years old, I broke my leg in a bicycle accident. For 14 months my small body remained wrapped in a plaster mummy-like… Editorial Staff · 1 min read M&B · 2001 Editorial: Trying Harder TRYING HARDER The death of Emil Zatopek last November continues to exert a profound effect. A few nights ago I once again watched Volume VII (the… Richard Benyo · 5 min read M&B · 2000 Wounded Warriers Wounded Warriors Savvy Runners Avoid Repeating Injuries— and If They Do Get Injured, They Come Back Stronger Than Ever. BY DAVE KROMER UNNING INJURIES. Nearly everyone… Dave Kromer · 9 min read M&B Vol. 19, No. 6 · 2015 Running From the Dark Well, it’s not far down to paradise, at least it’s not for me Almost any time you can lace your flats, and find tranquility Oh, a… Paul C. Maurer · 1 min read Vol. 19, No. 5 · 2015 Running The Shawangunk Ridge Trail Where’s George? It’s 9:00 p.m. I’m standing at checkpoint #6, high in the Shawangunk Mountains. The woods, tangled and dark, envelop us. One volunteer is still… Kenneth A. Posner · 21 min read Vol. 19, No. 3 · 2015 My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (Vol. 19, No. 3) LAKE CHABOT, CALIFORNIA, October 11, 2014—The first time you taste the incredible magic of breaking the 26.2-mile barrier, you feel like a child. A frontier, previously… Devon Kelts · 12 min read Vol. 19, No. 2 · 2015 Hats Offto Larry! Champ of what? Well, champion of what this magazine is all about, that’s what! Richard Laurence (“Larry”) Macon has undisputedly run more marathons (with some ultras)… Chuck Savage · 10 min read Vol. 19, No. 1 · 2015 My High-Altitude Marathon After years of therapy, I now have the courage to write about a challenging marathon held in 2002 in the Western Rockies. It was a double-loop… Jack McDermott · 5 min read Vol. 19, No. 1 · 2015 The Path To 42K Why run the marathon? However simple that question may be, the answer can vary as much as the field itself on race day. Whether the runner… Paul Clerici · 26 min read Vol. 19, No. 1 · 2015 Keep It Simple Ifirst spoke to Rob on the Friday before the “big” race. It was a brief encounter. He was leaving the prerace briefing and I yelled out… Bree Lambert · 8 min read Vol. 18, No. 6 · 2014 Got To Do It Every Day You’ve seen the videos, maybe on your local TV news. Maybe you’ve seen them on YouTube, the ones where someone constructed an unbelievably elaborate arrangement of… Richard Englehart · 18 min read Vol. 18, No. 5 · 2014 Look Back In Wonder Can it really be 10 years since Deena Kastor’s and Meb Keflezighi’s historic runs at the 2004 Olympic Games? Thank goodness for the miracle of YouTube… Tito Morales · 22 min read Vol. 18, No. 5 · 2014 Midpacker No More It’s the first weekend in August 2013, around 7:00 in the morning, in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena. Bouncing down Altadena Drive is a petite,… Andrea Feucht · 13 min read M&B Vol. 18, No. 5 · 2014 Speed Training For Marathoners Ever since Pheidippides allegedly ran into Athens, croaked “Victory is ours,” and (supposedly) died, the marathon has been viewed largely as a test of endurance. “If… Richard A. Lovett · 29 min read Vol. 18, No. 4 · 2014 Growing Slow Is Mandatory Do people ever really change? More to the point, do runners ever really change? In Chasing the Runner’s High, I wrote that all runners can be… Ray Charbonneau · 7 min read

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