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Thanks for the encouragement and getting back to me so quickly. Judging by your user name, you must be a tennis player. I used to be a huge tennis player in high school and then stopped. Maybe some day I'll pick it up again.

My pain usually comes when I'm not running. Usually when I'm suppressing something or going through a really difficult time. Sometimes I get pain when running becomes a center of perfectionism as well. For example, when I realized the wind at this year's mrathon was going to be the worst in years...my back started bothering me. I started thinking, "I trained 5 months for a 3:30 finish...now what do I do?" When I reminded myself that I'm not perfect, I adjusted my plan before the start and my pain went away before the gun went off.

When I'm running, my pain is almost always at the beginning. The first 1 - 3 miles and then it goes away.