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You Won’t Believe This! How To Bounce Back From A Marathon-Training Injury
From 2014 to 2017, Irish marathon runner and big-data expert, Barry Smyth, had access to a massive amount of runner training data from Strava. This data, which included approximately 400,000 marathon runners training for 800,000 marathons, has allowed Smyth to do “real-life” analysis of important marathon training and racing questions.
Smyth’s most recent paper has gone where no one has been able to go previously. He asks and then answers a question every veteran marathon runner has faced. Here’s the question: “If I lose time to injury in my marathon training buildup, how should I return to training when healthy?”
There are many potential answers to that question. They range from “very conservatively, so you don’t get reinjured” to “very aggressively, so you can go for…
