Hi there my running friend this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the planted runner, and this is the

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best running Imagine that you are at mile 20 of the marathon. You've been running well, you've been

hydrating and fueling according to the plan that you've practiced in training. You know that

you just need to get through the next 6.2 miles and you'll cross the finish line

faster than you ever have before.

And then it hits you a massive stab in your calf that gets worse and worse as you run.

Maybe you're tough enough to suffer through it, but your pace certainly will slow.

But for many runners, the cramps are tense enough to stop you in your tracks.

What causes leg cramping and more importantly how can you prevent this from ever happening again?

I'm going to go into the science of leg cramping today. I'll

equip you with an action plan that you can start today to cramp proof your

legs so you can crush your next race, cramp free.

And I'm going to do it with a little help

from my running mentor,

Coach Jeff Godette, a 222 marathoner,

and founder of Runners Connect.net.

Coach Jeff has extensively studied the issue of late race cramping and runners,

and it might not be caused by what you think it is.

One popular theory of lake cramping is that it's caused by a

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