Whether you are a recreational runner or are training for a marathon, you all have something in common: the need to care for those feet that will carry you across the miles or kilometers. If you don’t take care of them, you can’t get very far, right?
If you don’t have your own podiatrist to help you care for your feet, it may be a good idea to find one. A podiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in feet and ankles. They’re trained to diagnose and treat, as well as do surgery so they truly are the foot specialists of …read more

The final event of the Olympics leaves me wondering… just how do these men run a 26 mile race? The mental and physical strength that it must take to complete such a task is mind blowing. I searched around to figure out how the body and human heart can stay strong and continue to beat under such exhaustion. Here is what I found…
The researchers found that throughout the course of the races, the runners’ heart rate increased in a very controlled way, which appeared to be scaled to the distance of the race. When the heart rate response was scaled …read more