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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. 16, No. 3 · 2012 Chasing The Flying Goddess Falling headfirst into the pavement at mile 13 during the 2011 San Francisco Marathon wasn’t what I envisioned while lacing up that morning. Yet, obsessively, my… Paul Gentry · 12 min read Vol. 16, No. 1 · 2012 The Belle Watlings Belle Watling (bel wat’ lun) proper noun. 1: Character from the book Gone With the Wind, Belle was the red-haired madam of an Atlanta brothel, a… Bill Donnelly · 18 min read Vol. 15, No. 6 · 2011 We Are Cardiac Athletes In mid-November 2010, I traveled from Eugene, Oregon, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the Select Medical Harrisburg Marathon and Relay. I wouldn’t ordinarily travel 2,300 miles just… Jeff Hardisty · 4 min read Vol. 15, No. 5 · 2011 Kevin’S Nearly Excellent Adventure Prologue Ultrarunning is hard to explain. Most people don’t even like running, so the first thing they have to figure out is that running isn’t painful,… Kevin Stroud · 18 min read M&B Vol. 15, No. 5 · 2011 Not Quite Cooperstown The best baseball players have Cooperstown, the best footballers have Canton, Ohio, and the best basketball players have Springfield, Massachusetts. So what do runners have—in particular,… Rich Limacher · 49 min read Vol. 15, No. 5 · 2011 Editorial: Vol. 15, No. 5 (2011) Barefoot Boy, With Cheek of Tan Lately, the hysteria surrounding running barefoot has been reaching decibels usually associated with a Shuttle launch. Everywhere we turn there… Richard Benyo · 7 min read Vol. 15, No. 4 · 2011 Running With Purpose On July 8, 2010, I had the opportunity to speak with elite ultrarunner Lisa Smith-Batchen. Lisa recently finished a project called Running Hope to America. Joined… Gerard Martinez · 14 min read Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 My Most Unforgettable Marathon (Vol. 15, No. 3) EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, April 11, 2010—“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” Henry Ford most certainly was not thinking about marathoning… Doug Balogh, Phd · 18 min read Vol. 15, No. 3 · 2011 The Good, The Bad, And The Beautiful At the San Francisco Civic Center, another runner and I laced up together at the starting line. Just over 52 days later, I finished alone on… Marshall Ulrich · 15 min read Vol. 15, No. 2 · 2011 Is Supplementary Aerobic Training Necessary for the Marathon? Oh, if I only knew back then what I know now, I sure would have changed a few things about my training. My running career began… Roy Stevenson · 16 min read Vol. 15, No. 1 · 2011 The Purple Runner, Part 3 The Purple Runner The mysterious runner comes to Chris’s aid—and then vanishes. Part 3. By Paul Christman Chapter 7 “A pint and a half of Sam… Paul Christman · 29 min read M&B Vol. 15, No. 1 · 2011 Your Complete Guide To Recovering From A Marathon When you cross the finish line of a marathon, your body is a war zone—a war zone where you’ve lost most of the battles. You are… Roy Stevenson · 17 min read Vol. 14, No. 6 · 2010 Core Vs Skin Temperatures In Marathon Runners Missoula Marathon runners enjoy a beautiful morning as they run along the early part of the course.of a critical core temperature has been challenged in recent… John Cuddy And Brent Ruby · 7 min read Vol. 14, No. 6 · 2010 The Science and Art of Peaking and Tapering for Your Best Marathon As a keen junior distance runner in New Zealand, I'll never forget a lesson that I learned when I was forced to cut back my training.… Roy Stevenson · 23 min read Vol. 14, No. 4 · 2010 Road Warriors Of Volstate Sweat, pain, pit bulls, and shotguns— welcome to Gary Cantrell’s old-school ultra. by Susan Reynolds Heavy clouds hung low in the sky over Hickman, Kentucky. Seventeen… Susan Reynolds · 38 min read M&B Vol. 14, No. 3 · 2010 The Double Demons Of Heat And Dehydration What marathoners and ultrarunners need to know about the effects of heat and dehydration on distance-running performance and health. by Roy Stevenson With the hot summer… Roy Stevenson · 22 min read Vol. 14, No. 2 · 2010 Boston After Knee Surgery? The major media outlets prophesized a doom-and-gloom scenario for Boston 2007, saying "It could be the worst conditions ever experienced in the one-hundred-plus-year-old race."Photo courtesy of… Kevin Polin · 20 min read Vol. 13, No. 5 · 2009 Day With Marshall Ulrich Marshall Ulrich and Charlie Engle had taken the better part of a year to organize a 3,100-mile run from San Francisco to New York. Their goals… Steve Shepard · 9 min read M&B Vol. 13, No. 5 · 2009 Advanced Training Techniques For The Marathon At some stage of their running career, all marathoners stop improving, even seasoned ones with several marathons under their belts. If you have reached a plateau… Roy Stevenson · 19 min read Vol. 13, No. 4 · 2009 Dick Merriwell’S Marathon Or, how the last Olympic mile brought victory. Tip Top Weekly. Part 4 of 4. by Dr. Edward H. Kozloff Editor’s note: Tip Top Weekly was… Dr. Edward H. Kozloff · 13 min read Vol. 13, No. 3 · 2009 See How He Runs He is perhaps the best American distance runner that you've never heard of, and perhaps the unlikeliest. At 6 feet tall with long hair, he doesn't… Jeff Horowitz · 22 min read Vol. 13, No. 3 · 2009 The Fall And Rise Of A Leatherneck With enough will and persistence, any barrier can be overcome. by Jonathan White Master Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps You can’t know how you will react… Jonathan White · 35 min read Vol. 13, No. 2 · 2009 My Most Unforgettable Marathon: March/April 2009 Two weeks before the Heartland 100, the author, shown here with (on left) Sherpa John Lacroix and Nick Palazzo, ran the Vermont 50-Mile Endurance Run and… Chris Wile · 22 min read M&B Vol. 13, No. 1 · 2009 The Race Iam almost 40 years old, so running victories are a thing of the past for me. The best I could hope for would be to maybe… Nick Piscitelli · 6 min read
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