Yesterday I was speaking to an ultra-marathoner who had a metatarsal fracture.
Fortunately, the broken bone has been healing well and she's back to running.
But during our discussion yesterday she revealed something interesting. She was running every day. Just 3 miles…every day.
During that discussion I was trying to help her understand how it is that running every day, even short distances, in fact, extremely short by her standards as an ultramarathoner, those every day runs could actually put her at risk of re-injuring the metatarsal fracture.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast were talking about how you should skip a day to skip ahead in your injury recovery.
3 mistakes runners make with ankle sprains
Put your best foot forward on stairs when injured
Can I run on a treadmill after a stress fracture?
3 biggest mistakes injured runners make
Stress fracture: can I start a walk run program?
Question every timeline of running again after injury
Can I run after broken ankle surgery
Two perspectives for recovering runners
You already know the path to recovery
Most painful part of a running injury
Questions that make a stress fracture more or less likely in a runner
How a runner with a plantar fascia rupture talks himself into surgery
Pain is not a setback in your injury recovery
Injured runner underdog advantage
Rest is an atrophy plan
3 keys to recovering at a faster pace
How can you work with injured runners all day?
Letting go of your Identity as an Injured Runner with Toni Kengor
Surviving Sesamoiditis and getting back to marathon training
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