I just heard an interesting story on NPR called, “Staying Fit After Marathon Days Are Over.” Click here to read the story and here to listen. It has some good points, but the thing that many runners wouldn’t like about it is that it perpetuates the misconception that long-distance running will inevitably mess up your knees. One of the main themes of the story seems to be that running a bunch of marathons was not good for this man’s body, but what they really didn’t talk about is how his body would have been had he not run all those marathons. Perhaps he wouldn’t have been any better off, and he very well may have been worse off. It also said that he took no days off – if he had, he may have been able to avoid the problems with his knees.

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