Is calf cramping simply unavoidable for some runners?
Answer Hi Brian, I am not a marathon training expert, moreso a shorter-distance kind of guy for 5K & less. However, with what you are describing, I do not fully know the reasoning behind your cramping. Experts say cramps are mainly due to lack of fluids, and with long distances that the marathon requires one to be ready for, fluid intake is hard to manage for each run, because each training run can be different in affecting the body (outside temperature changes, for one, can affect fluid loss greatly, from run to run). That being said, I am also a believer in thinking that some people can handle marathon distances better than others can, and we are all not built equally to run or complete marathon distances. Perhaps you might be in this category of people who are not ‘built’ by design to handle the rigors of a marathon. I look at it in this light as well: Not all of us can be the greatest baseball players, football players, or basketball players, even if we play game after game of our
