So i'm training up a storm for the Christchurch half Marathon. Everything is going swimmingly (well there were little niggles but being the same as most people i ignore them) and then boom! Painful as painful ITB. Stopped me running, mid run, which is something that doesnt happen.
I get niggles yeah but not ones that stop me running. :(
Two weeks on and its still painful and so no Christchurch......im annoyed but not as annoyed as i usually get as i think i cant do anything about it, its not something my annoyance is going to change. I have to rest it, massage it with the golf ball (ohhhhh the most excrutiatingly painful thing in the unisverse- think hot needle poking) and massage...and that my friends is it.
My physio and i worked out that 5 years ago my lovely partner drove the car (accidently) over my foot. It didnt hurt i strapped it for while and left it...but through those 5 years the muscles and joints and bones have become tight and made me run funny causing at first shin splint-like pain and now ITB pain.....so massage and rolling and stretching is the only thing i can do. And be patient.
Happily the swimming has come back and im back in the pool 4x a week! Short distances are the way to go as its not stressful and i get out when i get bored-- usually around the 1.5k mark.
So there it is,....hopefully the pain will subside and i can start running again.
Sorry Christchurch you are not mine to conquer!
Just pondering - have you tried acupuncture? It doesn't work for everyone, but works for me breaking the pain cycle so I stop holding myself funnily (if that makes sense). Then rehab is easier in a normal posture.
ReplyDeleteOh, PS - come do Dunedin Half marathon instead - tis flat, along the harbour (not closed road sadly), but fun.
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