Marathon Running Injuries

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A "study published in 2008 in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports found that 28 percent of 694 male runners polled sustained a lower-extremity injury while running in a marathon or in the month before it."

"A 2007 study published in The British Journal of Sports Medicine found rates of injury to the lower extremities were as high as 79 percent in long-distance runners."

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The New York Times, Distance Runners Are a Paradox for Insurers, 24 Oct 2010