IT band straps

When it became clear that what had bothered me during the 2024 Snowdonia half marathon was my IT bands, I made sure to Google whether knee supports can help you with that. It would only be fighting symptoms, but if that gets you over the line then I will take it. I have those because of my penchant for spraining my knees. If you just put a support on, you can put weight on the knee again. Bending is difficult, but you can’t have it all. 

Google said that yes knee supports help. So I spent some races carrying them with me. Sometimes they stayed in the vest, and once they came out. And they did the job, but it was very uncomfortable. 

As my IT bands still don’t much like flat half marathons, but I don’t quite want to give up on these, I figured it would be worth it finding out if you can have supports that help your IT bands, but don’t stop your knee from bending. And it seems that there are! So I bought two different ones. 

They have arrived. I have not yet tried them out. But they are ready! And they are so small you can shove them in the front of a running vest, so it would be really quick to whip them out and put them on. 

I hope I’ll never need them, but I will sure bring them on my next long race! And who knows, maybe they’ll help me run a new PB on the half marathon next year…

Trying two different models