Running No-Nos.

[TooTall]

As I was clearing out some old files the other day I stumbled upon an old profile that I had been given at AIT. I had been sneaking out of the Barracks on weekends to run up Madkin(?) mountain at Redstone Arsenal, which was off limits to IET students because it was so far out from everything else. Myself and a couple of the EOD students liked the run because we had found a way to go straight up the telephone cut that leads to the observatory up there. To cut to the chase, after a few weeks of this my knee started acting up. Runs were getting to be a problem for me. I didn't think that it was that bad until my drill sergeant asked me if I was going to get my knee looked at. This took me out of the pack for a week. In retrospect, there was a lot I wasn't doing to prevent injuries. I probably could have been stretching, and it would have helped if I hadn't been running on the same shoes I had had since basic (the drill sergeant actually made a cadence about my shoes). Having done a search and found nothing, I think it would be a good idea to start a list of dos and don'ts to avoid injury while running. I still have a good number of questions myself even after the lecture the doc gave me, and with the medical guys here I figured there would probably be some insight and experience that I and other beginners could profit from. So, here goes.