My running has been slacking off over the past few months so a couple of weeks ago I decided to buckle down and get back to my best. On my first day back I tried my usual pace and distance only to get ITBS which is a pretty nasty pain on the outside of the knee. I gave it up for a week and went back out on a run, different route and it started again after 2km. I bought an IT band strap for my knee to easy the pain which worked on my following run....until I walked the final few hundred metres taking past the place where I first had ITBS...and the pain kicked in at the exact same place.
Went and bought a quality wrap-around Neo G knee support instead which isn't actually for ITBS pain but since then I've been out on it 3 times (6 miles each) including tonight - albeit at a slightly slower pace - and the pain has not returned. Chuffed with that and my target of the Cardiff half-marathon in October is now back on
