Gavin Burt is a sports osteopath and marathon runner, and is the recommended osteopath for Runners Need.
He is the director of Backs & Beyond, the official osteopathic clinic for the Flora London Marathon, providing advice and treatment on all running injuries, for all levels of runner, from novice to elite.
For more details, see
www.backsandbeyond.co.uk
Gavin will be writing regular articles for us, all designed to keep you running happy and injury free.
Latest Article: Staying Injury Free for the London Marathon
For those brave warriors who are on the epic voyage towards running the London Marathon this year, you will be firmly into your training schedule. As i am writing this there will be only 10 weeks to go.
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Article 3: The Running Executive’s Guide to Stretching
If you are a poor post-run stretcher (try saying that when you’re drunk), I would like to introduce you to a ‘drip feed’ technique - doing different stretches at various times of the day – let’s call it ‘Executive Stretching’, since it is the type of stretching that can be done while you are performing other tasks, something even the busiest executive could achieve with ease.
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Article 2: Recovering from the marathon (or any other distance)
Hopefully you got through the marathon with minimal aches and pains, and that little devil on your shoulder that said ‘never again’ during the last 6 miles has been replaced by another that says ‘bring it on’!
Having a structured plan of how to get back into running again is a great way of maintaining the ultra fitness you got from training for the marathon.
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Article 1: Stretching
There are far more interesting things to do in the lead up to the Flora London Marathon than to stretch, but there aren’t many things which are as important, especially in terms of preventing injuries.
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