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Originally Posted by SteelBlue
Also, if I recall you didn't really cut down on your mileage when you switched to the road. Everything I've read says that you need to cut your mileage in half when switching from one to the other and then slowly increase it each week.
I think a lot of the problem is that all of our activity is linear and forward and the abductors get weak. I've been doing a lot of exercises for the t.f.l. and I've stayed pain free for a while now. I think that's been helping a ton.
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Agreed on both accounts.
I was speaking with an orthopedic surgeon buddy a while back, explaining that a patient of mine had ITB syndrome. His first question was - Is he a runner or cyclist? For both of those reasons that Steel mentioned. I would include the gluteus maximus and especially the gluteus medius in the list of muscles that are often weakened in runners and cyclists and often need special strengthening attention.