Quote Originally Posted by cyclops View Post
pleased to report I've been out on 2 runs this week with no knee/itb pain. I've returned back to doing low mileage on the road just to get strength and fitness back up and when I'm sure there's no residual injury in there I'll start with the same strategy off-road. ran 4km Tues and 5km yesterday. when I say ran, I am doing run/walk. think I felt fresher yesterday after 5km than I ever did. I certainly could have run/walked for a fair bit further but as I'm in slow rehab I'm taking it slow.

Does anyone else do the run/walk strategy?
I have done 2mins run/2 mins walk etc up a long continuous hill in the Alps - for 9km or so - I have walked past people who were still running, but presumably they had different aims from me. This approach should be more gentle on injuries for a given distance, but may be no better than just covering a shorter distance, and running all of it.