re: OT runners, ever try Hokas?

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.