okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Maybe avoiding injury would be a big edge
Building on yesterday's post, I'm wondering if figuring out how to avoid getting injured would be a big edge.
It came to mind when I was reading web pages of Kim Fagerudd, Holger Hott Johansen and Fredrik Lowegren. All three have struggled with some injury problems recently.
I've been reading logs at Attackpoint and noticed the same thing -- lots of time lost to various injuries.
You can find lots of advice ("conventional wisdom"?) about avoiding injury. Things like -- don't increase your training by more than ten percent, avoid running on hard surfaces, don't run too many intervals, take a day off if your resting heart rate is elevated, alternate hard/easy days, and so on. There is no shortage of advice.
But if it was easy to avoid getting hurt (e.g. by following the advice) why are runners and orienteers getting hurt so much?
The answer is, of course, that it isn't easy and that people don't always do what they should. You can ignore the advice and be fine, at least some of the time.
A year or two ago I gave some thought to seeing if I could predict injuries. The idea was to keep a good eye on people training logs at Attackpoint and make an injury prediction each week or each day. Maybe I'd learn something. Maybe not. I think I'll try it.
posted by Michael |
7:56 PM
