Quote Originally Posted by wharfeego View Post
Hard luck Mr B. I spotted you walking in to the finish funnel and felt bad for your predicament.
That last paragraph is super technical! Please could you translate it to layman's terms
I'm just going to have to back away from it all Andy, i wanted a good crack at the Winter League and just shuffling around the remainder of the counters won't do my table standings any good at all- it's all or nothing. What i've learnt is that i have work to do with my left hip stability, and that i'm not good enough to run every race one after the other- basically i'm no Tindersticks!

The last paragraph...Tensor Fascia Lata is a muscle which can be used to keep your pelvis level when your other foot is off the ground, but Glutes Medius does the job much more effectively. For some reason people tend to suffer a lot from lazy/malfunctioning arse muscles- they use their Hamstrings for propulsion and not their arse cheeks, and they use their Tensor FL for stability not Glutes Medius (which is embedded in the arse cheeks group of muscles). Tensor FL is unsuitable for supporting your entire bodyweight on its own because it has to pull on the side of your knee and wrench the crap out of your ITB to balance you out, but if Glutes Medius isn't working effectively there's nothing else to do the job which gives you a sore leg and a sore knee (side). Glutes Medius on the other hand is built a bit like a brick outhouse and is connected solidly to bones at both ends, but it just happens to be bone idle in a lot of folk. The way to get round the problem is to get Glutes Medius working with recruitment exercises and stretch Tensor FL out like an oscar acceptance speech to remove its overbearing dominance. People talk about stretching the ITB, but tests have shown it can't be stretched, the Tensor muscle however, like any muscle, can be.