Kate Mihevc Edwards PT, DPT

Have you ever gone out for an easy run and looked down at your watch only to wonder why your heart rate is so high when you feel like you are barely moving? You might be trying to stay in Zone 2, but no matter how slowly you run, your heart rate keeps climbing and climbing. What about when you’re running with a friend who can carry on an entire conversation while you’re struggling to get a a word out. Why does running sometimes feel so hard when you’re going so slow? The first thing I want...

Knee pain is the number one most common injury among runners and has been for years. There are many kinds of knee injuries that runners can have. Most knee injuries are due to changes in training load, adding too much intensity or duration at once or even due to a change in surface. Several years ago I had a terrible flare up of IT band pain. I lived in Boston and was training for a spring marathon and we had a late snow. I had a long run scheduled and didn't want to move it so instead of...

I have been running for a majority of my life, but started long distance races about twenty five years ago. At which time, most people didn't bring a phone running, track their runs, or even wear a running watch. Strength training wasn't a thing, carb loading was a must, drinking coffee at the starting line was common and grabbing a banana and or a bagel was plenty after a run. I loved it. I never knew my heart rate variability, my recovery score or my ground contact time. Sometimes I ran...