--- In itbs@yahoogroups.com, jim passananti <jgpla@...> wrote:
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> I've been running for 3 years and have 4 marathons and probably 10
half's completed. Am in good shape for 49 yrs old (no weight gain
since high school) but recently after a 18 mile run the outside of my
knee is burning and hurting. I just took 5 days off and with a 4 mile
run it is hurting again.
> I have a marathon scheduled in 10 days. Does it make any sense to
just run a couple more days in between for 2-3 miles and take a Motrin
on my marathon day or am I fooling myself? I've trained for 18 weeks
and the marathon start is literally a half mile from my house!
> Anything I can do in 10 days to pull this off?
>
> More importantly, how can I get back into the groove and enjoy my
running again?
>
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I'm doing the London Marathon and came down with ITBS back at the
start of october. I did carry on running for a while until i got to
the point where i could barely run a mile before the pain got too
much. I visited a physio to get checked out and he discovered that a
twisted ankle that i suffered some 3 months earlier had caused the
heel on my bad leg to point inwards slighty which in turn was causing
irreguler tightness on the tendons and muscles in my lower leg.

He gave me a series of loosening exercises to carry out every day for
6 weeks which has sorted the problem out nicely but more importantly i
didn't run once for the whole 6 weeks. Training is going really well
now and i've had no more problems. I really do believe that total rest
was the key and as hard as it is i would definitely reccommend it! It
would be well worthwhile getting yourself checked out to see if it's
actually another completely different part of the body thats resulting
in your ITBS.