Ask any of your running buddies how to handle pestering running cramps and they’ll probably give you genuine advice like drink pickle juice, add salt tablets to your water, or eat a banana. And while none of that is necessarily bad advice, the solution for cramps depends on the source of them—which even experts can’t pinpoint with certainty. “Scientists have theories, but it’s hard to do research on cramps because they’re unpredictable and spontaneous,” says Kevin C. Miller, Ph.D.
Muscle FatigueDehydration, however, could expedite muscle fatigue, and that is what Miller believes is a likely cause of cramps. In that ultramarathoner study, 100 percent of the runners who cramped did so in either the last half of or right after the race. Anecdotally, this theory holds up: Most people who cramp seem to be covering longer distances; cramps seem more common at mile 20 of a marathon than, say, mile two of a 5K, and cramps are more likely to happen after about an hour of activity.
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