Doc On The Run Podcast

Ultra-marathon by definition means running lots of miles on trails. That's a lot of opportunity to get injured!

One of the best parts of running is social interaction. But it's not always easy to fin…

Sooner or later, all of us will have to deal with some uncertainty and adversity in making it to the finish line. Right now, obviously there's a lot of uncertainty for athletes in training…having dif…

Arthritis of any type can cause a lot of pain when you run. The word “arthritis” really and truly just means inflammation within a joint. There are lots of different kinds of arthritis. 

But in gener…

Find your why. Write it down. Just live towards that.

Jonathan Flores is the host of the Run With Purpose Podcast. He is also a runner who set out to run 50 marathons in 50 states, which obviously re…

Carrie Tollefson is by any standard and elite runner. Olympian. 13-time State Champion. National record holder for the most consecutive cross-country titles. First person in NCAA history to win both …

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we are talking with Jonathan Levitt about the strategies he uses to recover quickly after hard training blocks, or an Ultra before resuming training.

I am sure mos…

Kim Conley: 2-time Olympic athlete and middle and long distance track star.

Part of what I find so inspiring about Kim is the way in which she has pulled it out and come back in the final meters and …

If you want to complete an ultramarathon, you will have to put in lots of training. One of the big keys to successfully training for an ultra-marathon is to log lots of miles without getting sick or …

Lucy Bartholomew went from running with her dad at age 15 to finishing on the top of the podium at some biggest ultras around the globe, all while setting course records in the process. 

Not surprisi…

When I was running yesterday, we were noticing a couple of things that may put people at risk. And so, I was thinking about three simple ways you can really decrease your risk of exposure and keep tr…

The biggest difference in speed of recovery is motivation. Your motivation leads to the actions required to heal and recover as quickly as possible.

Healing is not a passive process. If you're just s…

I listen to lots of podcasts and I recently have heard lots of other speakers in all genres talking about how important it is to stay healthy and avoid illness, and reduce your risks or contracting C…

Right now all of us are inundated with rapidly changing circumstances and a wide variety of news stories about the coronavirus. With all of the uncertainty, none of us really knows what we are suppos…

Yesterday I was looking at the latest news story about the coronavirus lockdown in Italy. Strict lockdown. 

Don't go out of your house. 

Government orders. 

And the representative image in the news s…

I was on stage at the International Foot & Ankle Meeting in Lake Tahoe this weekend and was giving a presentation designed to help doctors understand why running isn’t the problem with running injuri…

Any diagnosis ending in “-itis” means inflammation. If you have inflammation in the tendons, a short course of oral corticosteroids will help to shut off the inflammatory response and reduce the infl…

An over training injury is one of the worst possible things that can happen to a runner.

You've been working toward a goal, hard, making sacrifices and then disaster strikes and you get injured. 

Of …

The Ironman triathlon is widely considered to be one of the worlds most grueling single day athletic events.

2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a full 26.2 marathon, all in the same day.

My Ironma…

If you are a runner and you have a weird aching pain, and you’re not really even sure if it's in your foot or your ankle you may have a condition called sinus tarsi syndrome.

When a doctor tells you …

The best decision is the decision to take the right action. The second best decision is to take the wrong action. And the worst decision of all if you are an injured runner is make a decision to take…