OnSugar blogger Running Nina needs some advice. She's training for a half-marathon and is dealing with a knee injury. Can you help her get through it? It is now less than a month to my first half-marathon. Despite not running for 2 weeks because of being sick I feel ready for it, well, almost. I still have a few more long runs to tackle first! I ran an eight mile run yesterday and it went pretty Read more

When I say that Jennifer Aniston is somewhat of a streaker, it's not what you think. Although also used to describe a person who runs naked in public (I can't help but think of Will Ferrell in Old School), the word streaker is also used to describe a certain type of runner: one who runs seven days of the week, without missing a single day. Jennifer recently declared, "[I] run, work out every Read more

If you run or hike, chances are high that you're familiar with shin splints. These micro tears in the lower leg muscle that attaches to the tibia (shin bone) most often occur from overuse — when you push yourself too hard, too soon. A calf muscle that's stronger than the muscles on the front of your shin makes you prone to this injury too. We recently wrote that Jennifer Aniston pumps up the Read more

I've officially said goodbye to my treadmill for the season and have been loving bringing my runs outside. My shins, on the other hand, have not been too psyched. I've been experiencing this shooting pain in my right shin when I run on the roads in my neighborhood. I assumed it was shin splints, since I've experienced them before in the Spring, but since I was only feeling it on one leg, a Read more

If you're a runner, even just casually, this story may be familiar. After a few weeks of running, usually outdoors, maybe with a few hills, you start to feel a sharp pain on the outside of your knee. The weirdest part: it happens when you're running downhill, and walking down stairs. You may also experience pain radiating the length of your IT band all the way up to your hip. After a visit to my Read more

Now that the weather is taking a slow turn toward lovely, I am all about running outside. But before you leave the treadmill behind for good this Spring, I suggest you listen to your running. Ditching the headphones for your indoor workout and using your ears to learn about your running gait could save you from developing overuse injuries. On your self-diagnostic run, you want to listen for two Read more