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Mysterious running injury.
Out of nowhere I seem to have sprung a miscellaneous pain in my right quad. After straining my left calf/achillies on the 10th and then running a (near PB) 10k race on the 11th, I had just over a week almost completely off (bar a couple of short jogs/stretching sessions to monitor my recovery). On the 20th I ran a pretty relaxed 10k with zero problems. On the 21st I ran 13k at a good solid pressure, I ended up posting my fastest ever time over that training route and felt very composed and strong and I was really buzzing afterwards - very happy. On the 22nd I was feeling a bit pooped from the previous days effort so took things easy but felt fine. Then on the 23rd I was due to run 16km.
The weather was scorching and I never felt quite right, so I just ran at a very steady pace. After about 7 or 8k my legs started feeling sore (mostly around the joints) and at 11km I was passing back near my office and stopped at a water fountain. I was expecting to run 30k on the 24th and I just wasn't feeling it so I gave up and walked the couple of hundred meters back to the office. I felt a little bit stiff but nothing extreme or overly unusual.
My desk is on the 2nd floor, and when I got back to the office I started up the stairs and suddenly it felt like someone was driving a knife into my right calf. The pain was/is very localised, and I can clearly pinpoint it as an area of a couple of square cm right in the very centre of my right quad, and deep in the muscle. Since then the pain hasn't subsided at all, but it only occurs when I put power through that area (so going up or down stairs/slopes), it is completely normal otherwise - there is no pain when I poke around at the area and none of the standard quad/leg stretches yield any response.
Any suggestions as to possible diagnoses and/or rehab (in addition to rest)? I'm reasonably used to managing tendon/joint strains and muscle strains where I can stretch the affected area but this just feels a bit weird (and painful whenever stairs are involved).
It's frustrating because combined with a lot of travelling next week (back to the UK), it'll amount to 3 weeks off in the middle of what should be an intense training block.