From runner’s world online…
How Running Affects Your Body
Weird Science
Running makes you lean and strong. It also gives you twitchy legs, black toenails, and an urgent need to find a bathroom now. Why? Here, doctors, therapists, and physiologists offer explanations and practical solutions for our most perplexing body issues.
By Dimity McDowell
From the September 2010 issue of Runner's World
Runners know bodies. We understand what training does for our legs, lungs, and heart. We're also intimately familiar with the other, less attractive ways running impacts our bodies. But we don't necessarily know why we have to pee even though the shrubs got watered just two miles ago. Or why our knees crackle and pop as we go down stairs. Or why someone way heavier can kick our skinny butts in a half-marathon. So Runner's World consulted doctors, physiologists, nutritionists, and other experts, and frankly asked them the most quirky and perplexing questions about the bodies we know and love. We also asked for practical advice about how to deal with our issues. Here's what the experts said.
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