As Jennifer Penrose, owner of Penrose & Associates Physical Therapy in Olympia points out, changes occurring in the musculoskeletal system are due more to disuse than aging.
David Jaewon Oh
Odds are good that the marathon (or half) you were planning to run this year was pushed to a new date due to the pandemic. Even though you may have to adjust your training, you can still expect all the usual challenges of marathon training including some pains and niggles.
We hate to say it, but it doesn’t matter if you’ve run a
dozen marathons or if you’ve just signed up for your
first race, at some point during 26.2 miles, it’s going to hurt. In fact, recent research based on a survey of 1,251 runners found that most runners experience moderate to severe pain during a marathon, regardless of their biological sex and only weakly related to their marathon race experience, pain during training, and race effort.