Following last week's 6 mile run with the persistant IT band irritation, it has been a week since I've run. At this point, it is obvious that the IT band situation is not going away quickly, so this run was just to see where the irritation would start appearing.
During todays run, I got to about the 20 minute point before starting to feel minor irritation from the IT band. So instead of stopping, which I've done in the past, I decided to take a stretch break to see if it would help. It did, but I found that I could only go a couple more minutes before irritation would set in again. I ended up finishing the run out with 2 sessions of 7 minutes (with stretch breaks). So while it was a disappointment that the stretching didn't have a long lasting effect, at least it helped a bit.
Total Distance: 4.2 miles
Total Time: 38:40
Avg HR: 161
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