Steady State

Each year, 80% of runners experience overuse injuries, which include various tissues like muscles, tendons, bones, and joints.

This high percentage highlights the importance of understanding and preventing these injuries to maintain your running routine without disruption.

Tendons (e.g., Achilles, upper hamstring), muscles (e.g., arch of the foot, calf), bones (e.g., shin splints, stress fractures), and joints (e.g., arthritis, runner's knee) are often victims of overuse injuries.

Fortunately, most running overuse injuries have a lot in common, making the solution relatively straight-forward.

It is common to optimize your prerun marathon plan.

It is far less common to optimize your POST-MARATHON plan.

This shouldn't be the case, as a few weeks after running a goal race like a marathon is one of the most common times for a new running injury to pop up.

Fortunately, we’ve found a few key tips that help our runners avoid a new setback during this crucial period.

While these tips are relatively general, we do find runners often aren’t optimizing their more basic recovery needs.