Okay, let me start this by saying I searched, and found LOTS of good information. Just posting to see if anyone has anything to add, or this "helped them".
Background: ran a Half marathon 2 weeks ago. Roughly was doing 30+ mpw leading up to it. All was good. Had a good race. After the race I waited a week to get back on the legs to just get them to recover. The second week I did some light jogging and I noticed a tingling/numbness/pain in my right calf. But not in the calf, under it. And I could feel a twings in my right butt cheek...but at the base of it...but inside it. Blah blah blah. Ran through it, but just slowly. It didn't really affect my run and sometimes after a bit of running (3 miles or so) it'd feel better. Thought maybe just a strain. Finally went to do a nice slow 7 miler and at mile 4 it was bothering me enough to call for a ride. I didn't want my stride and everything to change/compensate and then hurt other parts of me. So...did some research, and had a tough massage (worked pretty good) in which I learned stretching (the pigeon, and Brett's post from here) would be the "cure". Took a week off of running to stretch each day, and 3 -4 times a day. Jogged for about 10 seconds yesterday and it was back to hurting/feeling weird.
My next move is to get a lacrosse ball to "get in deep", which I haven't done yet as I thought stretching would be enough.
This sucks!
Background: ran a Half marathon 2 weeks ago. Roughly was doing 30+ mpw leading up to it. All was good. Had a good race. After the race I waited a week to get back on the legs to just get them to recover. The second week I did some light jogging and I noticed a tingling/numbness/pain in my right calf. But not in the calf, under it. And I could feel a twings in my right butt cheek...but at the base of it...but inside it. Blah blah blah. Ran through it, but just slowly. It didn't really affect my run and sometimes after a bit of running (3 miles or so) it'd feel better. Thought maybe just a strain. Finally went to do a nice slow 7 miler and at mile 4 it was bothering me enough to call for a ride. I didn't want my stride and everything to change/compensate and then hurt other parts of me. So...did some research, and had a tough massage (worked pretty good) in which I learned stretching (the pigeon, and Brett's post from here) would be the "cure". Took a week off of running to stretch each day, and 3 -4 times a day. Jogged for about 10 seconds yesterday and it was back to hurting/feeling weird.
My next move is to get a lacrosse ball to "get in deep", which I haven't done yet as I thought stretching would be enough.
This sucks!