The pain hit an 8 at around mile 2.5 so I quit at 3. Bummer. Otherwise an uneventful few minutes of 24. It feels great now after 200mg of Ibprofin and lots of stretching.
So I posted this in the blog but wanted to make sure you saw it:)
I don't know why I didn't think of this before but I have worked on many IT band cases and for years this was one of my most difficult things to figure out until I got a touch of it myself. Only about 98% of IT promblems aren't actually true IT band syndrome (my experience any way and I have seen alot). I figured out that is caused by tight deep hip flexors mainly the Periformis muscle and the Vastis Lateralis (outside quad muscle). I found by working the vastis lateralis and showed the person some good stretchs to open up the hips the problem got better way faster than if I just worked on the IT band. Every person is a little bit differant but this has been true to most of my clients with IT. What I would do is start doing some good hip stretchs and get a rolling pin and start rolling out that quad, focus on the outside, a couple time a day. You can also get a hard ball and put it right in the middle of your buttock and lay on it, move it around untill you find a spot that really hurt and hang out there untill the pain lessen then move it around untill you have worked out all those sore spots, repeat on the other side. I would also work the other quad at least once a day. Did you ever think running would be so much work ;)
Ouch! An 8 is pretty bad. I hope you decide to take some time off and stretch/massage a lot. I still think that the elliptical might be better than the treadmill, but as long as the treadmill isn't too painful and you are stretching/massaging enough it probably won't be too bad. Hope you recover soon.
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