So I haven’t logged a blog post in a few weeks, due to the fact that I haven’t run in a few weeks. At some point I decided that it was probably best to just let my body rest and get better as opposed to continuing to try to run through this injury. I was planning to probably wait a week or so more to try running again, but yesterday I received my new massage stick in the mail (I ordered a different one a few weeks ago but returned it). As I was testing out the new stick I realized that for the first time in weeks my IT band was not sore when I ran the stick over it. Given this development, I attempted to run again this morning. That said, I decided to take it nice and easy and ease my way back into it. Thus, I ran for 25 minutes at 8:00 pace.
My left leg felt totally fine the entire run. While I was pleased, I have had these false starts before in which my leg feels fine while I am running and then is killing me a couple of hours later. Today I felt no such pain—just a little bit of soreness and tightness which dissipated fairly quickly. Needless to say, I am very encouraged. I have another physical therapy appointment tomorrow, and then will try running again on Friday. I am going to keep my fingers crossed, but I think that I may finally be back. The key of course, will be to ease my way into it and really listen to my body this time.
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