I did my first 2.5 mile run tonight and had a little pain near the outside of the left knee during the last few minutes...it wasn't quite in the IT band area (slightly in front of it) but radiated around to the back a bit and it was a real "oh, #@*#!" moment given that I remembered having some of that pain along with the IT band issue on one of the hikes I did at the end of the summer. So I got home and was stretching, and decided to look in this trigger-point book I have (which I highly recommend--it's "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" by Clair Davies; it has a few off-the-wall things in it but the trigger point stuff itself is great) and see if I could find anything that might explain that pain since it didn't seem to be the IT band. Lo and behold, there was something about a spot in the vastus lateralis right near the knee that can cause pain in that area, and when I went poking around there it did not feel good! We'll see if working on that area keeps that particular pain from happening next time I run...