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re: OT runners, ever try Hokas?
Posted on 10/24/16 at 9:04 am to KG6
Posted on 10/24/16 at 9:04 am to KG6
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It definitely helped me with the issue. A few years ago when I started running again, I was running in whatever shoes I had laying around. Some random Nike shoes I had for casual wear. I had outer knee tightness after almost every run over 3 miles. Switched to Brooks Ghost's and literally never even felt a hint of that IT tightness again. I'm now in Newtons and still no issues. Now I'll admit, these shoes were probably in terrible shape, but it did lead to the IT band issue.
I don't think it was the shoes
did you take time off in between this? did you get more serious with your fitness? so many variables
I don't know how changing your shoes could help with IT issues
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Posted on 10/24/16 at 9:06 am to Salmon
How many miles per week do you average and what shoes do you run in?
Posted on 10/24/16 at 9:10 am to Salmon
I do not pretend at all to be an expert on the issue. I just know that I was foam rolling, icing, taking aleve, etc. after every run. Nothing would stop it. The last run I did in those shoes (13.1 mile training run) was the last straw. I was still tender the next day. Went get better shoes that day since I was finally getting serious and hadn't had a single run with IT band tightness since.
Like I said, I don't think that I'd have had the issue running in any "good" pair of shoes. I just think a really bad pair (these were probably 4 years old, although never really run in) can possibly cause the issue. It's hard for me to look other places when it stopped liked someone flipped a switch. It could have totally been that I changed my gait at the same time. But I think the shoes helped facilitate that.
In the same manner, I could not figure out a comfortable way to run with a midfoot strike until I switched from the Ghost (12mm drop) to my Newtons. Within a few months, my running looks totally different. Now I just need to find a shoe that I like, but isn't as expensive as Newtons.
Like I said, I don't think that I'd have had the issue running in any "good" pair of shoes. I just think a really bad pair (these were probably 4 years old, although never really run in) can possibly cause the issue. It's hard for me to look other places when it stopped liked someone flipped a switch. It could have totally been that I changed my gait at the same time. But I think the shoes helped facilitate that.
In the same manner, I could not figure out a comfortable way to run with a midfoot strike until I switched from the Ghost (12mm drop) to my Newtons. Within a few months, my running looks totally different. Now I just need to find a shoe that I like, but isn't as expensive as Newtons.
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