My legs are still hurting from the half-marathon that I ran two days ago, and it’s making it difficult for me to write this. For the most part of my life, I’ve been one of the least athletic persons on the planet, and I’ve never given much thought to jogging as a kind of exercise. […]

Make no bones about it (or muscles or tendons): If you start running, there’s a considerable probability that you’ll get hurt. According to some estimates, at least 50% of runners suffer injuries annually. Before you join the track team, they don’t tell you that. Applying force repeatedly over an extended period of time results in […]

It may seem evident that running can have a significant impact on your mental state as you struggle through a long run while rapidly alternating between feelings of misery and elation. It is an intuitive notion that more and more neuroscientists are starting to take seriously. In recent years, they have begun to demonstrate what […]