Running Injury

Being injured is the pits. Many times, you can’t run at all. Even if you can run with your injury, you usually have to cut back on your usual distance and slow down. Your running just isn’t as much fun. Suddenly, your running, which is supposed to help with the stress in your life, adds to it.
Unfortunately, injuries are a part of the sport, and a common one at that. By some estimates, more than half of all runners are injured enough every year to have their training interrupted for more than a week. Now that I’ve completely depressed you, here’s the good news—injuries are common, but they’re usually predictable and preventable.
Most running injuries come from trying to do too much too soon at too quick a pace and ignoring the body’s signals that it’s on overload. So before looking at how to treat common running injuries, I’m going to show you how to avoid them.