And I don't mean Information Technology.
Yes, this morning I and my right IT band got to know each other a little better.
I was doing my daily 30 min. run and about 10 minutes in had a nice twinge from my right hip down to the outside of my knee. I slowed up a bit and ran through it and it went down to a dull ache for the rest of the run. It quit hurting pretty quickly after I stopped running and didn't hurt at all when I got up on the elliptical. The only time it woke back up was later in the morning as I was walking down Seneca towards work and got to a particularly steep section of sidewalk. Walking down that incline really activated the twinge and I had to slow way down and take small steps. I iced it as soon as I got to work and it seems fine now.
My next run is Saturday morning — a 50 min. group run starting at Gasworks Park (and going onto the Burke Gilman, I assume). I'll be having a little conversation with the coaches about this one. I'm hoping that it's just more of the normal "shakedown" portion of taking up running — even though I'm in fairly good shape, running is using muscles differently and it's normal to have some aches and pains. I'm also adjusting to my new shoes.
It is also interesting that I didn't have any pain issues before beginning this training even though I had been running on the treadmill for a good couple months. True, I wasn't running as often, but I was running longer. I have been using the treadmill at a 0 to better simulate running outdoors. Previously, I had always put the incline up to at least 3.5. I wonder if that isn't part of my problem with these aches and pains. We'll see what the coaches say.
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