Unfortunately, I missed the first one on Nutrition for Runners but Suzy gave an excellent summary HERE.

The 2nd one was last nite:

“Injury Prevention”

Too bad this wasn’t offered sooner! Maybe I wouldn’t be injured right now!!

Speaker:  Matthew Alheim, P.T. 

Matthew is a Physical Therapist at Repsher & Associates.  He will speak on proper stretching techniques and give tips on ways to prevent common running-related injuries. Time will be set aside for questions and answers.  

The seminar was sponsored by Adidas, FleetFeet and HMRRC.

There were about 50 or so local runners, most of them training for a Marathon.  I bumped into fellow blogger/runner, Suzy and we sat together.

There’s too much of a teacher/trainer in me to rave about this presentation.  The speaker is a physical therapist and obviously knows his stuff.  As a presenter, he stunk was not very good. He gave out handouts of most of his powerpoint slides.  He just read what was on the screen (and on the handouts) and when he was running out of time, he just went through the content quickly.

He discussed the common running injuries (plantar fasciitis, achilles tendonitis, shin splints, IT band, patellar tendonitis) and their causes, symptoms and treatments. (Most of this I was familiar with since I am always looking things up on the Internet.)

He then via the slides demonstrated lots of useful stretches. He concluded with a question and answer session.

The bottom line is that you need to stretch!! I think I knew that. 

 I am not a stretcher.  I get out and begin to run and then when I’m done, I stop.  With me, it’s a time thing.  I want to get the miles done and get to work or get home and stretching takes time. I DO NOT HAVE TIME  to stretch…

This is all fine and good if you are not injured.  If you are older, I think you are more prone to injuries because you are less limber.

Now I am stretching and stretching and stretching. When I am healthy, will I continue?????

(Speaking of healthy – I ran 2.5 miles yesterday morning and played tennis for 1 hour after work and I do not have pain today…woo hoo!!!!)

Happy Running! Do you stretch?