Tom_hampton wrote:
jkhayc wrote:
ericMPro wrote:
As for injury prevention, I’ve been thinking a lot about this… at the risk of pissing people off I really don’t get what all the fuss is. It’s very easy to not get hurt from my POV. I must have some sort of efficient biomechanics that preclude injury in addition to doing the correct ramp ups and correct frequency and consistency and intensity distribution each week.
That said I’m doing squats and deadlifts 2x/wk and stretching after runs for the first time in my life. I’m also keeping up with core work. I’d say I haven’t lost any weight in the last year and may even be adding some muscle and fat as these 100mi weeks start to add up.
I think it’s “the more you run the more you can run” and a corollary “the more you run the more you have to run” in order to take the dose and adapt or stay injury free.
IOW, more is more, and more more is morer.
E
nobody gets what all the fuss is until the fuss happens to them.
I agree.
For a coach I find Eric's statement to be a strange perspective. There are countless anecdotes of running injuries that clearly point to an injury risk associated with running. I've been injury prone, and I've been non-injury prone. Good mechanics is certainly a big part of it. Again, I've had both good and bad mechanics at different times...and associated robustness (or lack thereof) as a result.
Eric, I'm sure your squats are a big help. Hip stabilizers (esp. adductors), make a huge difference. I learned this inadvertently, several years ago from rehab.
I've always run as if my feet were both landing on the same line (eg, running on a balance beem, or the white line on the shoulder of the road). And I was also prone to hip, knee, and ankle overuse issues (IT band, patellar tendonitis, Achilles, and other various ankle tendons). Following rehab....my wife noticed that I no longer ran in a single-file gate, but one that was more straddled across a ~4" gap. More like running with each foot on either side of the white line.
After that change in 2018, I had no further running issues, including running 70 - 100 mpw in 2020 for the majority of the year (including 1500 miles over the summer as part of the GVRAT). That said, since I took 2022 off, I've noticed that my gate has returned to an in-line style gate---and, my left ankle has been "sensitive". So, back to doing more hip stabilizer work.
This is classic ST… “you’re wrong, but let me tell you how I do exactly what you do because it’s right”. Same thing happened in the 200/100 thread with some 13x/wk runner.
Perhaps the injury risk is not associated with running per se but rather associated with being in a cult to some extent or degree… believing the stories you tell yourself.
“Things that cause injury are out of my control, things that don’t are good choices because of my sharp intellect and handsomeness”.
Vs.
“Things that cause injury are within my control, I can make good choices because of my intellect and good looks. Things that don’t cause injury, or cause no injuries, are out of my control.”
I like my cult better.
E
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