osteoarthritis

Non-runners sometimes misunderstand distance runners.  They can’t, for the life of them, understand why we happily spend countless hours trucking around town in rain, in the dark, in snow and ice, braving speeding cars and barking dogs.  And what about OUR KNEES?  Don’t we know that running wrecks our joints?!? My hunch is that every distance runner has fielded this inevitable question from a non-runner at some point.  And how should you respond to such concern?  With the truth.  Running does not hurt our knees.   Say it, and say it proudly.  Need proof?  For one, you can point to a 2013 study published in the journal Medicine …