About
Built for the runners who keep getting hurt.
Most running advice is written for people who don't get injured. Run more. Run faster. Add a workout. It works — right up until your Achilles flares, your knee complains, or your shin won't quiet down, and you're back to square one. Again.
Durable Running is for the rest of us. The serious amateurs who love the sport but seem to spend half of every year hurt. The 35-and-up crowd whose bodies don't bounce back the way they used to. The people for whom the hardest part of training isn't the training — it's stringing enough of it together to matter.
Our premise is simple: fitness isn't the bottleneck — durability is. You don't need a more aggressive plan. You need a body that can absorb the plan you already have. And durability, it turns out, is trainable. This site is where we collect what works — the load science, the strength work, the small habits — and translate it into things you can actually do.
The thinking behind the app
Durable Running is the public, no-login layer of an idea we also built into a product. Calves & Clamshells is an iPhone app that schedules strength, mobility and rehab around the runs you already do. Your running is your running; C&C handles the rest. Tell it your week and what's bothering you, and it tells you what to do today — the strength, mobility, rehab, drills and recovery that keep you on the road.
Where this publication gives you the principles, the app applies them to your week. If the ideas here resonate, that's the natural next step.