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Veracity Performance & Recovery

Running Specialist Physical Therapy & Performance in Suffield, CT, and virtually.

04/03/2026

No perfect running form, just better decisions for your body and your training.

If you've been training for a while, your stride is already close to optimal. Most trained runners sit within ~3% of their most economical pattern.

Improvement isn’t about copying someone else, it’s about small, intentional adjustments:

• Slight cadence increases can reduce joint stress
• Less ground contact + bounce = better efficiency
• Gait changes can help with injury, but also shift load elsewhere

Footwear, cues, and drills all matter, but only when applied to you.

Veracity takeaway: Gait is a skill. Refine it, don’t rebuild it.

03/29/2026

Getting an injury right doesn’t require 2–3 visits per week for weeks or months.

It requires one visit to understand the injury, the individual, and their goals. Sometimes, 2-4 visits over months are appropriate to bridge from non-running to high performance.

In most cases, you can (and should) continue running.

We just need to take our time and put you on the right path.

03/23/2026

New Blog: Running and Your Joints: What Actually Matters for Osteoarthritis and Long-Term Health

Running doesn’t ruin your joints. Poorly managed load might.

It’s not about avoiding running. It’s about understanding the right dose for you.

Click in the bio to learn more

03/20/2026

How do you structure your training?

How you organize your week matters just as much as the workouts themselves.

It’s not just what you do, it’s how it fits together.

A well-structured week helps:

• Drive performance when that’s the goal
• Reduce confusion in day-to-day training
• Manage fatigue and avoid unnecessary setbacks

Because good training isn’t random. It’s organized, intentional, and built to progress.

Smart training isn’t about random workouts. It’s a proven system that works.

👉 1:1 Running Physical Therapy
👉 Endurance Coaching
👉 3D Gait Analysis

03/15/2026

How elite coaches prevent injury & boost performance 🏃‍♂️

✴The Goal:

Training should live in the Goldilocks Zone

Too little → no adaptation
Too much → injury or burnout

Monitoring helps keep training right for your life, training, and injury history.

✴The 3 Fundamentals to Track:

• Volume (distance or time)
• Intensity (pace /heart rate/effort)
• Frequency (sessions per week)

✴Progressing Workload:

⚡ Acute vs. Chronic Load: Compare last week’s training to your average over 3–4 weeks. Sudden spikes = higher injury risk.

📏 Long Run Rule: Avoid running more than 10% farther than your longest run in the last 30 days.

🏆Consistency Wins

Runners who completed 80% of planned training weeks were 7× more likely to hit goals.

Consistency > perfect workouts.

Monitoring helps you:
• Reduce guesswork
• Adjust training load
• Catch fatigue early
• Prevent injury

03/11/2026

From zero to multiple injury-free marathons.

Consistency, feedback, and trust in the plan turned small steps into big miles. 🏃‍♀️💪

03/01/2026

Running is high impact.

That’s not the problem. Poor progression is.

Anti-gravity treadmills reduce load, but they also reduce demand and alter mechanics.

They’re potential tools. Not shortcuts.

The goal isn’t early running. It’s sustainable, long-term running.

Learn more about this technology and if it's right for you.

02/28/2026

🚨 Returning from injury?
🚨 Wanting to up your mileage without setback?
🚨 Not sure if that ache is an injury or something to push through?

Most runners come back too fast, follow random advice, and end up sidelined again.

Here's the solution: Your Guide to Confident Running - a step-by-step blueprint to return safely, rebuild confidence, and hit your targets.

⬇️ Click the link in my bio to get your FREE guide.

02/21/2026

Threshold Runs

Purpose: Improve Lactate Threshold.

This raises the pace you can hold without flooding your system with lactate, meaning:

• You run faster
• For longer
• With less physiological stress

And psychologically? It teaches you that “comfortably hard” is sustainable.

What Threshold Should Feel Like

• Effort: "Comfortably Hard."
• RPE: 5–6/10
• HR: 82–92% max

You should feel controlled. If you’re straining, it’s too fast.

Two Main Types

Tempo Run
→ Continuous effort (ex: steady 20 min @ T pace)
Best for confidence + rhythm

Cruise Intervals
→ Broken threshold (ex: 5–6 min @ T w/ 1 min rest)
Best for more total time at threshold pace

Both work. Choose based on fitness and tolerance.

How Much?

• Roughly 10% of weekly mileage

Pacing Guidelines

• ~6 seconds slower than interval pace

Threshold is a pace you can maintain. If HR drops during a sustained effort → definitely too hard.

Example Workouts

~40 miles/week
• 20 min steady @ T
• 4 x 5–6 min @ T (1 min rest)

40–70 miles/week
• 6 x 5–6 min @ T (1 min rest)
• 2 x 15 min @ T (2 min rest)
• 16–20 min @ T → 3 min rest → 10–15 min @ T

70–85 miles/week
• 8 x 5–6 min @ T
• 4 x 10–15 min @ T

Bottom Line

Threshold work:
• Builds durability
• Improves pacing control
• Gives you high-quality stimulus with manageable stress

Source: Daniels, J. (2011). Daniels' running formula (3rd ed.). Human Kinetics.

02/17/2026

A gait analysis is only a potential piece of the picture.

🔑Training plan inefficiencies
🔑Strength and Coordination
🔑Lifestyle factors
🔑Shoes, goals, how everything fits into a weekly/monthly schedule..... all influence performance.

This athlete came in looking for deeper insight into efficiency. We assessed movement quality, performed orthopedic tests, strength, and running mechanics. Then we followed up with clear recommendations to support long-term progression.

Objective data. Individualized application. Ongoing refinement.

If you’re a competitive runner looking to better understand how you move and how that impacts performance, both in-person and virtual assessments are available.

Precision matters when performance is the goal.

02/15/2026

How do we know we are improving?

We have a variety of tests to gauge individual progress. It's significant because as fitness improves, margins get smaller.

Physiological assessment is how your body responds and adapts to training.

It's hard data that doesn't lie.

Examples:

🧡 Heart rate testing during easy, threshold, or interval running
🧡 VO2 max pace/lab testing
🏋️‍♂️ 1/5/10 rep max testing on a strength exercise
🏃 3D Gait analysis testing

Reliable, repeatable, easy tests that measure training

Why test runners?

• Identify strengths & limiters
• Validate if training is working
• Guide smarter program design
• Build motivation through progress

We can do this through lab & field testing

Key point:
🔥 Changes in trained runners are small. 🔥 Changes in novice runners are larger.
🔥 Testing must be repeatable & sensitive to matter.

This may be taking 5 seconds off a 1600-meter time, a significant difference for some.

Variation is normal:
• Biological (sleep, stress, fueling)
• Technical (equipment, protocol)

Every individual is slightly different from 1 day to the next, as they are different athletes from 1 year to the next.

This is why consistent testing > one-off tests.

Fitness is fluid and ever-changing. Data should guide decisions.

Curious to learn more about how to gauge progress and keep on top of your ever-changing fitness?
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02/12/2026

Different levels of runners experience different injury risks.

Among elite-level long and middle-distance runners, most injuries occur in the Foot & lower leg

Recreational runners tend to experience injuries more commonly at the knee.

Why the difference?

A greater frequency of speed-based training sessions for elites and different biomechanics, such as foot strike patterns

Incidence = new cases
Prevalence = total existing cases

Common Running Injuries

• Bone Stress Injury: 4.9–21.9% (31% prevalence)

• Patellofemoral Pain: 5.5–20.7%

• MTSS/Shin Splints: 13–20%

• Achilles Tendinopathy: 8.9–10.9%

• IT Band Syndrome: 1.3–9.1%

• Calf Strain: 4.5–33%

• Plantar Fascia Pain: 4.5–10%

• Hamstring Strain: 5.3–10.9%

• Hamstring Tendinopathy: 7.3%

Your risk is shaped by:
• Training
• Strength
• Previous injury
• Running mechanics
• Lifestyle + recovery
• Fueling

Know your risks, and better shield yourself through training.

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Tuesday	7am - 7pm
Wednesday	7am - 7pm
Thursday	7am - 7pm
Friday	7am - 7pm

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