We investigated running injuries in entrants to the 7th Saiki Banjou marathon race using a questionnaire. There were 170 runners, 153 men and 17 women with a mean age of 48.7 years. On average subjects had a running history of 12 years, and a mean monthly mileage of 156km.
54 runners had experience of running injuries and many had knee injuries. There were no statistical differences in training distances, age, running speed and number of years running between injured runners and non-injured runners. We concluded that the reason for this, was that most of the subjects was low level runners.
