Dealing and Running with Iliotibial Band Syndrome

Dealing and Running with Iliotibial Band Syndrome

Am I nuts to even attempt this? Not really. Because of the dreaded ITBS since the Milo Marathon, I haven’t been running a lot as much as I should or wanted to. I’ve counted the days turn to weeks, and weeks turn to months. I’ve gained weight – at least 5pounds, and a little depressed insid

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My Running Recession due to ITBS

My Running Recession due to ITBS

2 weeks after my Milo Marathon race, I started to go back to running and slowly build-up my mileage. However, I've noticed something wrong, the outermost side of my left leg would get sore after 4miles (6kms) no matter how slow or fast I ran. Then I realized I had the dreaded Iliotibial Band Syndrom

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4weeks downtime after 42.195Kms

Motivated with my good newbie marathon time, I was excited and ready to wake up tomorrow morning... (oh my gosh, it's already 12:24AM!) to do an easy run (jogging) since my quads felt OK now, and I'm no longer walking like a toddler. But then I pondered as a newbie marathoner, am I really allowed to

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Aray ko! (Ouch!)

Last night when Beth and I were in Makati, we stepped in the wrong bus that we thought would take us to Market-Market to attend Takbo.ph's Carbo-Loading party at "The Old Spaghetti House" restaurant. So we left the bus immediately when this girl behind me who was also leaving the bus landed her foot

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Runners Knee? What's the Filipino Runner's secret?

This morning after the 21Km LSD (more on this later with pictures) with the takbo.ph, I was able to chat with some of the runners, the famous runningdiva. During our chat she mentioned having knee pains and I told her I also had some knee pains especially during my mileage increases during the last

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Running with Achilles Tendinitis

Running with Achilles Tendinitis

Last week Tuesday, after a day's rest from the 15mile long-run, I ran an easy 3miler (4.8Kms) and felt OK for the rest of the day until late afternoon - my Achilles tendon began to feel sore that I could barely walk. I could walk albeit very slowly and painfully that I couldn't hide it in my office.

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