Julien Wanders been diagnosed a Sacral Stress fracture

how on earth have you connected these three things.

Its funny, week ago my hip and glute got very tight and painful during run. I csnt even walk with 3-4 days. PT do usg and Say I pull muscle in glute . By now i feel all my right side and have some pain in glute but more on IT band. Could it be this fracture? Pain when go up stairs, and very Little when i bend down (to Wear socks etc)

The sacral stress fracture is all the rage this season!

Well, According to:

runnersworld.com

Are Sacral Stress Fractures on the Rise?

Though the injury remains relatively rare, it has affected many elite athletes and can require two months or more off running.

Link:www.runnersworld.com/news/a20803232/ar...

Yes, it's a bit old before the carbon plate shoes was the new area. But Sacral stress fractures seems much more common these.

Sorry, my misstake. I ment Ryan Hall, not Ritzenheim:

sportsspectrum.com

7th Heaven: Olympian Ryan Hall Races Seven Marathons, In Seven Days, On Seven Continents - Sports Spectrum

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"Beginning in 2012, though, his races
were cut short due to injuries: plantar fasciitis, then issues in his
right hamstring and hip caused him to drop out of the 2012 Olympic
Marathon 10 miles in. Later, he tore his left, then right quadriceps
muscles, followed by a stress fracture of his sacrum."

And that happened well before supershoes. Your physics is shoddy to say the least.

But sad that Julien waste his talent with overtraining and undereating.

I never said it was because of the "supershoes" but could be one reason to that we're seeing more frequent stress fracture around Sacrum. It's just one hypothesis. Think about it. If you "spare" lower leg muscles from muscle fatigue, due to the supershoes, it's not unrealistic that other muscle group has to take greater muscle load? If so, then the supershoes can be an independent factor to Sacral stress fractures, BUT the main reason lies on imbalance/week muscles around the hip/glutes.

Is the under eating a common cause for a stress fracture in that area?

Under eating will weaken bones, so I'd imagine anything impacted by running will be at risk of fracturing. Julian biggest problem is he pushes that envelope over the edge too often. His mental and physical ability to work so much is a double edge sword. If he can stay healthy we've seen what he can do on the roads over 10k and marathon. But from what he's done lately he needs to change up his training to stay healthy.

What's Wanders weekly mileage?

sportsinjurybulletin.com

Sacral stress fracture in runners: a sneaky cause of low back pain?

Patrick Gillham investigates the cause of stress fractures in runners, focusing on sacral stress fractures, which are less common and trickier to diagnose and treat.

Link:www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/sacral-st...

Again. Overtraining or underfueling (or a combination of both) puts runners on a higher risk developing weaker bones (osteopenia or in worst case osteoporosis), sure!

Especially if the stress fracture is located around the femur, sacrum, ilium and lumbar vertebra, that's a red flag for RED-S. I would't been suprised if it was an underweight, female long distance runner suffering from Sacral stress fracture (also sad of course), but when we're also seeing more and more male runner, many of them with not that "ascetic body composition" (OK, Julien might look ascetic, but he also but high enfasis on strenght training which are good for bone mineral density), I´m starting wonder if the shoes COULD be one contributing factor, devendent or independent, to more frequent Sacral stress fractures. It could "only" be because of "too much to soon" training (intense + large volume), imbalances between left/right leg and not fueling your body with enough nutrition.

Again, I'm just speculating. It just seems odd, according to the link above (before the "supershoe area"), that among all types of stress fractures, only 1.3-5.6% is in the pelvic area. Maybe the only answer after all is: Put your training load to an extent your body can adapt from physically and mentally (enough training in combination with rest and nutrition).

COACH J.S Jan Stensson trolling him on strava

COACH J.S trolling everyone not following his "magical training program". I've seem him trolling Mo farah on facebook. Not suprised.

At least he got a cool Sweat Elite video out of the experience!

I think he’s on around 150 to 200 km per week with an average of about 180 but if I am incorrect in this assessment, I stand corrected. I recently spent five weeks in Kenya including two weeks in ITEN, and my assessment is based on talking to different people in that town, including in Julien’s wife’s restaurant, ‘The Midland’ and also in “Lilley’s” (Oasis), which is a popular hang out for local runners mostly Kenyans. Lilley's, is located about 1 km up the road from the center of ITEN.

Julien’s diet: I did not get a chance to talk to people about his diet but I did notice that in the restaurant that his wife owns, “The Midland” Julian has several meals which are named after him, including the “Julien Wanders Special,” which includes a lot of vegetables and rice and minimal meat if any. I gather that Julien also likes eggs and chapati in the morning and pancakes. Please note that most Kenyan elites are almost vegetarian or vegan in their approach to nutrition, at least that is what I gathered from looking at what they eat during the past five weeks.

Most of the Kenyan runners who run around 60 to 62 minutes for the half marathon told me that they usually only eat meat once or twice a month. Some of them eat meat once a week and the favorite is typically goat meat.

"COACH J.S Jan Stensson
Very strange that Canova can`t teach you to train proper. ;)"

Seriously? What a moron.

Yes, even more so than for other types of stress fractures. The bones of the upper leg are much stronger, more dense as compared to the bones of the lower leg. So if you are getting fractures of the sacrum, it's much more of a red flag than a stress fracture in the foot or tibia. When you are consuming insufficient calories/nutrients, the body's ability to recover becomes comprised. This in turn negatively impacts the body's endocrine function, which in turn reduce bone mass and density, thereby making stress fractures of the sacrum much more likely.

Competitive distance running fundamentally squeezes runners to make these conflicting optimizations to squeeze out the last ounce of performance:

1) Keep weight around what would be considered underweight for normal people but not too low to flag RED-S or fracture risk.

2) Strength train to reduce likelihood of fractures but not too much coz that’s just extra muscle weight to drag.

3) Increase mileage even if the returns are diminishing (as long as they are positive) but not so much so as to break apart.

Little surprise that the most successful marathoner also happens to be also incredibly well disciplined running and training for exactly two marathons a year, rest, rinse and repeat; the sport is fundamentally a contest of pushing your body as close as you can to breaking point without actually crossing it for as long as you can manage it.

Interesting. Watching the NN Mission YouTube videos on the Kaptagat runners seemed like they regularly eat meat dishes at the Global Sports Camp. Is their meat avoidance for performance reasons or other reasons like affordability or cultural or what?