In the spirit of continuing the running-themed posts this week, I bring you "Coping With Common Running Injuries", a very handy set of tips from Web MD's Weekend Athlete's Sports Injury Guide.

Some other favorite running sites:

MarathonGuide.com is a great resource, in particular the bulletin boards, which include boards devoted to women runners and reviews of specific races.

Active.com, where you can search (and register) for races by zip code, date or even sport. There are very few events that are not on Active.

Hal Higdon, whose training guides I've used for Silicon Valley and CIM.

Runner's World magazine. Although I subscribe to Runner's World, their website has a great archive of past articles divided by topic. It's amazing how much of their content is online.

Cool Running's Couch to 5k plan. If you don't run at all, except to the bathroom at halftime, then this is where to start.

At the other end of the extreme is Dean Karnazes' site, the "UltraMarathon Man" who ran 50 marathons in 50 days and described the experience on his blog. His final marathon was the NYC, and then he decided to run back to San Francisco. I had the impression of Karnazes as the Lance Armstrong of running, complete with Texas-size ego. Reading the blog as he completed the Endurance 50, I really came to admire Karnazes' humility. He was genuinely awed by the people he ran with and as their stories inspired him to keep running, they inspired me, too. I still think he's nuts, though.