My iliotibial band issues have completely disappeared. I think the combination of stretching and not pushing myself so quickly has helped.
I’ve been running quite a bit and doing mainly slow long runs.
I’m working up to a decent base now and I’m going to start increasing my runs to 4x a week.
I’m also going to start pushing myself on some runs to build up some speed. I’ve been naturally getting faster just from the increased mileage but I think some faster short runs won’t hurt.
It’s also amazing how much easier running has become.
If you told me two months ago, I would be doing 5 mile easy runs during the week, I wouldn’t have believed it.
What was hard for me was breaking through the 3 mile psychological barrier I had in my head. I always had this idea in my head that 3 miles were long runs, but you go past them enough and 3 mile runs become easy runs.
I have a long run schedule this weekend, it’ll be my longest run ever. I’m aiming for at least 7 or 8 if I’m feeling good. My longest run to date has been 6.25 miles so this would be a milestone. Then it’ll be on to double digit runs next which would be a big milestone.