Run to Win

I just got off of the line from the second marathon questions call. There were not very many people on the call, so I think that I might go back to having the calls on the weekends as there were 3 times more people on the line. I did not get any questions from anyone listening; once I started recording nobody wanted to speak any more, so I went through the questions that I received and answered them.

My plan is to edit the recording tomorrow evening, so I should have a replay hopefully available tomorrow night. For members of Marathoning.org, the transcript will be available next week some time.

This evening, I answered 8 questions. Here they are, in the order that I answered them:
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In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about injuries for the month of November. This is the final article in the series. I will first explore why runners get injured, and then I will share some of the most common running injuries that you are likely to hear about or suffer.

Causes of Running Injuries

The vast majority of running related injuries are due to one of 3 things:

1. Poor biomechanics
2. Over training
3. Trauma

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