You’ve followed your plan. Your mileage looks right. Your strength sessions are dialed in. So why does your body still feel off, or worse, why are you getting injured? Here’s the honest answer: it might not be your running. As runners, we love control. We obsess over pace, cadence, and shoe stack height. But the biggest threat to your training isn’t always in your programming, it’s in everything outside of it. Life stress, sleep, nutrition, and recovery all shape how your bod

When a runner walks into the clinic with knee pain, we must look at the knee and the surrounding structures and tissues. What seems like a knee issue often started higher up—or lower down—the chain. And if you’re only chasing the pain, you’ll probably miss the real problem. Running injuries don’t come out of nowhere. They almost always stem from a combination of factors: a training change made 4–6 weeks ago, a sleep deficit, nutritional gaps, higher stress, or simply movement