Ramping up your running distance

June 22, 2011

Runners, we’ve all heard we shouldn’t increase our distance too quickly–rule of thumb is no more than 10 percent a week.

Turns out there’s no hard evidence for this rule, as I just found out reading this New York Times article. Runners who ramped up their running more quickly had same injury rate as those who stuck to the 10 percent rule.

(yikes, the article also mentions that as many as 40 percent of runners are injured).

Not that I plan on heading out and running all sorts of crazy distances right away–just intriguing how this is little bit of running myth has become so accepted as truth.

Filed under: Fitness Swellness

Tags: distance, injury, running