Happy Friday y'all - today Jesse and I talked through common training mistakes that often lead to running injuries, with the main theme being doing too much too soon for what your body can currently handle. Here's a bit of what we covered: 1. How training mistakes often happen after time off 2. Why the 10% rule is too simplistic 3. Why injury risk depends on much more than weekly mileage alone 4. How recovery is where adaptation actually happens. 5. Why many runners stay stuck in cycles of pain: they chase short-term fixes like soft tissue work, gait changes, or passive treatments without addressing the real issue, which is usually inadequate preparation for the demands of running. 6. How smart loading, strength work, and clear communication around flare-ups are essential if someone wants to build long-term durability and return to running confidently.

Hey everyone! We will be meeting virtually today at 1pm EST. Topic for today is “Common mistakes that lead to running injuries”. Excited to talk about this and more myth busting when it comes to running training. Join us if you can! Also, please comment below 👇 with any topics you would like to hear more about, or any questions related to run training/injuries!

Great convo today with Jesse! We talked through return-to-run principles, with the main idea that symptoms should guide progression rather than rigid mileage rules. Framed return to run around a stoplight system. Key points discussed: - Pain type is key. Tendon pain may tolerate some low-level symptoms, while bone stress injuries should stay at zero pain and joint stability issues should be handled more conservatively. - Training history changes what is safe. Someone with years of high-volume running can often ramp back faster than someone with less experience or more injury history. - Shared the “Injured Runner’s Road Map,” a guide that organizes return-to-run decisions by pain type and stoplight status, while emphasizing that mileage progression still needs to be individualized. - Discussed the Find Your Steady State app as a way to track return-to-run progress using Durability score, ACWR, recovery scores, pain + illness. - Using a “check the box” approach: start with an amount of running you’re very confident will go well, confirm it feels okay over the next 24–48 hours, then build from there.

Hey all! Kelton and I will be meeting today at 11am EST to answer any questions if you want to pop in to our live video call. We will also be chatting more about “return to run” protocols, and how we navigate those plans for clients who are actively in pain, or finally getting out of pain. Hope to see you there!

This was created using our call today but also info from a prior running mobility workshop that we've put on multiple times. You can find it in Classroom -> Resources but figured I'd post it here as well.