I have a very odd thing going. I've been very bike focused all summer running 1-2 times / week. I ran 2-3 times / week this spring leading up to a tri.
I want to ramp up a bit again for a tri early September, but I have an issue that a real bugger on the outside of my right knee. No pain cycling, swimming, walking, but I get about 5-15 minutes into a run and bam....sharp pain it feels about right where my IT band connects to my knee. If I try to tough it out it can be almost at point of lockup within minutes. Walk a bit and it will settle down and I can run pain free a couple hundred yards at a time until it hits again.
If I let it get bad the pain can radiate to places in the knee other than just the outside. And outside may not be outside for sure, but maybe the outside of the joint?
Any thoughts on this? I have literally 2 weeks to my tri....and no running isn't real ideal for a 5 mile run in a race.
24 Hour World TT Champs-American record holder
Fat Bike Worlds - Race Director
Insta: chris.s.apex
I want to ramp up a bit again for a tri early September, but I have an issue that a real bugger on the outside of my right knee. No pain cycling, swimming, walking, but I get about 5-15 minutes into a run and bam....sharp pain it feels about right where my IT band connects to my knee. If I try to tough it out it can be almost at point of lockup within minutes. Walk a bit and it will settle down and I can run pain free a couple hundred yards at a time until it hits again.
If I let it get bad the pain can radiate to places in the knee other than just the outside. And outside may not be outside for sure, but maybe the outside of the joint?
Any thoughts on this? I have literally 2 weeks to my tri....and no running isn't real ideal for a 5 mile run in a race.
24 Hour World TT Champs-American record holder
Fat Bike Worlds - Race Director
Insta: chris.s.apex