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Running streak – what is behind the running trend and how healthy is it?
Running every day is quite challenging for the body. The musculoskeletal system in particular is heavily stressed.
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Going for a run every day is currently very popular among runners. But how useful is this form of daily training?
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Successful running training thrives on regularity. But does it have to be that regular? At least 1.6 kilometers, i.e. one mile, must be run every day over as long a period of time as possible. This is what the “United States Running Streak Association” prescribes according to Wikipedia. Some of you might remember the movie “Forrest Gump”. In what is now a legendary scene, the titular hero walks across the United States for approximately three years, two months, 14 days and 16 hours. “Run Forrest, run” he is cheered on.
Running as serial production
So-called streak runners do it in a similar way: they run every day without a break. The American Run Hill came up with the idea. He said he ran every day for 52 years and 39 days. The so-called “running streak” is now a globally known running challenge – especially in January around the turn of the year, countless runners try to take on the challenge.
There are sports doctors who say categorically: From a medical point of view, such a running series is crap. Mainly because of the constant stress and the lack of time for regeneration. But why are so many enthusiastic about this type of endurance run? I talk about this with my co-host Mike Kleiss in the new episode of our podcast “She runs. He runs”. He’s particularly good on the subject this time as he’s also running a streak at the moment. And defends his daily training. Now where is the truth? Listen in!
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