Taking up running is a popular New Year’s resolution, but the School of English author of Footnotes: how running makes us human has warned about the need to let bodies adjust.
Writing in The Conversation, Reader in English and Environmental Humanities Vybarr Cregan-Reid reminds new runners that their bodies are only as strong as the weakest link. People taking up running are reminded that their muscles, lungs and heart will adapt very quickly, but their tendons, ligaments and bones will take weeks to adapt.
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