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Tom Evans | Pro Ultrarunning Playbook, UTMB 2022, Trail Running Teams

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The IT Band Friction Syndrome

I started developing to the IT band friction syndrome on the outside of my right knee and I was training for the Olympic marathon trials at the time. From this IT band issue I then got a stress fracture in my femoral head and ended up tearing some cartilage in my knee because I couldn't feel anything. It's actually the sense of option would have said okay well you're injured stop trying to fight it and just back off had I taken a month off in February last year then there's no way that I would have had to have undergone surgery, he says. He adds: "I've set myself a goal I've set myself my mission and I want to achieve it and I'm

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