In my full time years as a running Coach, the most common injury I’ve seen it Plantar Fasciitis. Typically, an athlete exhibits heal pain or stabbing pain throughout their foot upon walking first thing in the morning.
Pain is typically one of two issues, poor run mechanics or poor mobility habits. The way an athlete moves and the volume of running it usually the culprit. Excessive inflammation of the thick band of tissue, called the plantar fascia leads athletes to this point of difficult return…