Last year at running camp, we (my colleague Elizabeth and I) spent hours watching videos, writing out gait analysis and explaining what we saw to hundreds of middle school and high school runners. By the end of the week, we realized something, not only were we completely exhausted, but we were saying the same things over and over again. "Lean from your ankle, not your hips" "Keep your arms from crossing your body. Your elbows should go back" "Don't reach so far out in front o

Can you keep running as you get older? Absolutely. Research consistently shows that runners can maintain high levels of fitness, performance, and health well into their 60s, 70s, and beyond. AND you are never too old to go out and walk or even run. While aging affects muscle mass, recovery, running economy, and aerobic capacity, many of the changes we associate with "getting old" are actually related to inactivity, loss of strength, inadequate recovery, and poor training habi

In my PT clinics we always know when a big race is coming up because one or two weeks before race day the phone is ringing off the hook. Pain or small injuries that could be ignored when mileage was low start to get louder and more difficult to run through. Why does this happen? Training Fatigue Most of the time our clients try to pin point the one thing they did that caused the injury, but it is usually not from one single workout - it is overall training fatigue. During the