Huh. Heelcup you say...interesting!

When the problem started (in the relay) I was wearing my second, not-so-sure-about-these pair of shoes (a pair of Sauconys, fairly recent purchase) - and not my tried and trusty Asics Gel Kayanos.

I took them back to the shoe store yesterday and let them look at all my shoes. They said the Sauconys were a completely different (non control type) shoe from the Asics (a control shoe).

I'm reading that control shoes can help eliminate ITB problems, so this makes sense. Even so, the shoe store was reluctant to say that the shoe is the problem.

So I bought a Patt strap http://www.fabrifoam.com/p-pattstrap.html that I probably won't see until next week.

I've done nothing so far this week.

I'm reading that ITB is made worse by sitting (which is maybe why I feel it from sitting in a deskjob all day).

And I'm freakin' - because I have a half-iron race at the end of next month!!! Eeep!