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Can You Run Too Much?
Racing without a plan can mean a run of bad luck
The day after my first , I went running. My quadriceps were so sore that I had to walk backward down my New York apartment stairs to get ouside, but I was young, euphorie and hooked.
It wasn’t just because running kept me feeling thin and fit. I loved the races, the people and the way a run could lift my mood. After a good workout, I was ready to take on the world.
I was also fairly addicted, because —even if I’d run a marathon the day before—left me feeling irritable and edgy. So I kept running when my body was screaming for a break and eventually joined the chronically injured club.
More than seven of 10 runners will get hurt over the course of a year, said Irene Davis, director of the University of Delaware’s Running Injury Lab—just one reason why runners can't seem to talk about anything else.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Most running injuries are because they are overuse injuries caused by elementary training mistakes: running too far too soon, racking up excessive mileage, doing too much interval work, and wearing the wrong type of footwear. I made all these mistakes and more.
I ate poorly, ran on , never stretched or built core strength, and had glaring muscle imbalances. That saddled me with the three most common overuse injuries: tendonitis, muscle strains and stress fractures. And that was just the beginning. Running too much can damage nearly every part of your body, from your skin to your immune system.
Vocabulary Focus
euphoric (adj) ----extremely happy and excited
hooked (adj) ---enjoying something so much that you are unable to stop doing it
life (one’s) mood (v. phr) ---to cause you to feel better emotionally
join the club (idiom) ---something that you say to express that you have had the same experience or problem as someone else
rack up (phr. v) ---to obtain or achieve, especially one by one, or little by little
Specialized terms
quadriceps (n) ---四头肌a large thigh muscle that extends the leg
core (adj) ---核心的；基本的central; basic, or the central body
tendonitis (n) ---肌腱炎inflammation of tissue that connects muscle to bone, usually caused by excessive use, as in a sports injury