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She had me at "“There is good evidence that your body is exquisitely lazy...", but this is an added bonus:
"Dr. Steef Bredeweg of the University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands, and his colleague Dr. Ida Buist..." sounds like part of a Monty Python skit.
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"When the researchers tried to figure out how to prevent the injuries, they learned that the only thing associated with running injuries was, in fact, running. The more people ran, the more likely it was that they would become injured. "
That's lousy logic if I've ever seen it.
Also, I don't think it's true--except among beginning runners.
It should be mathematical, but it's not.
In my personal experience, I agree with this. For the first couple years I got injured frequently, but I have been remarkably healthy for the last couple. I think two things happened: 1) My body had time (months and years) to adapt to the stress, joints, tendons, muscles all bulked up. 2) I learned to understand what my body was telling me. After a couple years you become much more sensitive to the signals that are telling you to lighten up for a day or two. I don't think beginner runners "hear" their body as well.
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"When the researchers tried to figure out how to prevent the injuries, they learned that the only thing associated with running injuries was, in fact, running. The more people ran, the more likely it was that they would become injured. " ...
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What about breathing hard?
What about sweating?
Maybe those are associated too. Maybe those are bad too.
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
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I think rebelrace has a point. It's probably all the tunnel crawling and fire jumping that's injuring these new runners.
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You could just do nothing all day physically. That's a great way to avoid injuries to your legs. You only have to worry about a higher chance of heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, morbid obesity, high blood pressure, and some other minor ailments.
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I don't think beginner runners "hear" their body as well.
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And some people take longer than others. Speaking on a personal note.
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She had me at "“There is good evidence that your body is exquisitely lazy...", but this is an added bonus: "Dr. Steef Bredeweg of the University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands, and his colleague Dr. Ida Buist..." sounds like part of a Monty Python skit.
This they now do.
I think most new runners, if they have a competitive background in other sports, would automatically have a tendency to over-train and push too hard every day. In most other sports you really push yourself hard, every day. You can't do that in running and last very long.
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The human mind and mody is WONDERFUL at figuring out how to do things with the least amount of energy expenditure required. The first time I jumped up to running 90-100mpw consistently...from, like 50-60mpw...I was tired and hurting all the time (not injured, just hurting like an SOB all over). Wouldn't you know it, within a few weeks my form started changing. Stride shortened, more shuffling-type stride at the same speed. My body started figuring out ways to save energy and reduce impact forces to spare itself.
Of course, it took a couple years to get from being able to survive on this training to truly, truly thriving on it...strength and other adaptations take time.
Regarding the "the only thing that correlates with injury from running is running" idiocy...the best analogy I can think of is to tell somebody that they should avoid ever getting close to other people because they might have their heart broken. In both cases it is assinine to give up on doing something so good for you and rewarding because their may be some boo-boos along the way.
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This is a very good point. I do a lot of my running on multi-use trails and I see a lot of beginners. Now, I'm far from being fast so it's not a particularly big deal to pass me but when I get passed by many new runners they seem like they're deep into oxygen debt and just short of a heart attack. I wonder if the multi-use trail makes it even harder for a competitive minded new runner to keep it up long enough to really become a runner.
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