The Walk-Run Routine is likely the most overprescribed and least understood plan for returning to running after an overtraining injury like a metatarsal stress fracture for a plantar plate sprain.
But the commutative forces that result from that specific routine may put your foot at unnecessary risk of re-injury. Understanding how and why those unique stresses happen may help you make better decisions about your first few runs after you feel your stress fracture or plantar plate sprain has healed enough to resume running.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about the worst thing about walk run routine after running injury.
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This morning I was on a consultation call with a runner at 4:30 a.m. and he’s been suffering from a plantar plate injury. But he’s been doing pretty well. He actually just finished his first run!
Now, what I asked him about was his plan for his next run. What he said, made me uneasy.
It seemed risky, and I started kind of squirming as he was describing his plan to me. It wasn’t really a bad plan. It wasn’t really a crazy plan. But based on all the experience I have working with injured runners, I knew it was riskier than it needed to be.
And this is why I decided to record this episode. Because it happens to almost every injured runner! So don’t let it happen to you!
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about why runners get re-injured one to two months into healing.
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