Increasing Running Distance Safely – How to Build your Running Program
An important topic, when building your running program, is by how much you should increase your weekly total distance (total of miles you run per week).
Several variables may affect that answer but looks like, based on research, that novice runners are more likely to hurt themselves when a sudden increase in more than 30% of their weekly distance happens within a 2 weeks time frame. We are talking about distance-related injuries, such as runner’s knee, iliotibial band syndrome, shin splints, jumper’s knees, gluteus medius, greater trochanteric bursitis, and injury to the tensor fascia latae.
Increasing Running Distance Safely – How to Build your Running Program
An important topic, when building your running program, is by how much you should increase your weekly total distance (total of miles you run per week).
Several variables may affect that answer but looks like, based on research, that novice runners are more likely to hurt themselves when a sudden increase in more than 30% of their weekly distance happens within a 2 weeks time frame. We are talking about distance-related injuries, such as runner’s knee, iliotibial band syndrome, shin splints, jumper’s knees, gluteus medius, greater trochanteric bursitis, and injury to the tensor fascia latae.