Is this man really the greatest danger to runners?
A CNN headline today, boldly declares that LACK OF TRAINING is the greatest danger to runners. In a piece of muck-raking that’s sure to remind readers of a young Upton Sinclair (not the old, sell-out Upton Sinclair who took a job writing propaganda pieces for Oscar Meyer), CNN uncovers the cause of many running injuries: not training properly.
This bombshell is sure to send shock waves through the running community, though skeptics are sure to point out some problems in the scientific backing of the claim. Just because people who don’t train for races are more likely to be injured then people who don’t train, doesn’t mean there is a correlation between lack of training and injuries, there could be a third variable, such as gender, age, shoe quality etc. that is at work here.
Worry about running injuries all you want. The bees are just biding their time.
But the greater issue is not the faulty science, or the extreme anti-not-training bias of the report (though both are problematic), it’s the absolute falsity of the claim. Lack of training IS NOT the greatest danger to runners. The greatest danger to runners, as to non-runners, is METEORS SMASHING INTO THE EARTH, followed by MEGA TSUNAMIS, and BEES.
Pretty shoddy reporting CNN.