Are we moving forward in research on risk factors for running-related injuries?

There is a clear need for prospective experiments that include the tracking of day-to-day running exposures to better understand running-related injury (RRI) development. In this presentation, preliminary results of a 1-year online prospective survey study regarding the influence of week-to-week changes in training workloads on RRI will be presented along with the many challenges of conducting such large-scale online studies. Although we are moving forward in our quest to better understand RRI etiology, we might need to abandon typical approaches and supplement our biomechanical data with day-to-day training factors to truly understand RRI risk factors and help reduce number and rates of RRIs.