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Angela, thanks for the advice, I'm affraid I wouldn't be able to afford a professional massage though  

How can I tell if it is in fact my gait causing the problem?

Thanks Steve

I think have to replace my 10k with a 6k for the next couple of runs and hope that's enough combined with the stretches you suggested

Thanks Steve

I think have to replace my 10k with a 6k for the next couple of runs and hope that's enough combined with the stretches you suggested

I'm a relatively new runner and have been doing a 10k run every couple of days for the past couple of weeks in prep for a race on the 3rd of March.

However, after my past 2 runs I've been experiencing terrible pain in what (after some reasearch) I believe to be my piriformis.

I know it must be injured and will need to heal but I really don't want to lose fitness before my race and was wondering if anyone could give me a guideline of how much I can run on this sort of injury? 

I've been doing specific stretched for the area as advised on a few websites and threads.

(On a side note - I'll be travelling to South America on the 20th of March and probably won't be able to do much running for more than a month so there's some guaranteed rest time if I can just get through to then)