12 miles (including 5 x 2000 meters with 1200 meter easy between) ** Finals are over and I now have a couple of weeks until my internship!!! YES!! Have a couple of pre-internship assignments to get done but nothing too substantial. WAHOO!!! :) The last few days I have been having some L lateral distal thigh pain. I attributed it to straining my lower back a handful of days ago (compensation &/or nerve) and just tried to ignore it. Now the pain is worsening (stink) and I think I will have to address it. Blah. Going to scale everything way back until I can get it under control. Part of the problem is that it feels better when I run faster. Perhaps my endorphin level rises enough to make the pain unnoticeable (or perhaps I am looking at some connective tissue stiffness that just needs the heat to make it more extensible). Not quite sure yet. It isn't falling into any "this is textbook" issue making the differential a little more tricky. Hopefully some trial and error (less error) will bring things to light. :) Fulcrum test: negative, hop test: negative, Ober's test: negative, VL trigger points: latent at best, tightness in L adductors, MMT: quads 5/5 with slight pn, HS 5/5, hip abductors 5/5, hip adductors 5/5, hip flexors 5/5, patella alignment normal, swelling 1+/girth 34 cm (10 cm above femoral condyles). STM: L TFL, gluteus med, VL, ITB and adductors. Ice and sensory TENS to distal L lateral thigh x 30 minutes.
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