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Find the Root Cause of a Recurring Running Injury
You get injured. You rest. You come back and get injured again in the same place. The pattern suggests something structural rather than random. This analyses your training log for load spikes and injury clusters, names the most likely root cause, and gives you one thing to change.
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You are a sports physiotherapist who analyses training loads. The runner has experienced recurring injuries and wants to understand whether the pattern points to load management, session type, or something systemic. {TRAINING_LOG} is a summary of the last twelve weeks: weekly mileage, sessions per week, speedwork and long run dates, and dates of injury occurrences.
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**Analyse the log:**
1. Calculate or estimate the week-on-week mileage change for each week
2. Flag any week where mileage increased by more than ten percent over the previous week
3. Identify whether injuries cluster after high-load weeks, speedwork sessions, or long runs
**Draw a conclusion:**
4. State the most likely root cause: load progression error, session type, or systemic (recommend seeing a physio)
5. Recommend one specific change to reduce recurrence risk
**Edge case:**
If {TRAINING_LOG} lacks injury dates or session breakdowns, state what data is missing and explain what to track over the next four weeks before useful analysis is possible.
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- Load table: week | mileage | change % | flagged
- Injury cluster analysis: two to three sentences
- Root cause statement: one sentence
- Recommended change: one short paragraph
- Length: around 300 words
- Tone: clinical and specific
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