High reps of strides to overcome an injury? Anyone ever had success?

Thinking wrote:

Has anyone ever used high volume of fast strides 100-200 to get over an injury either deliberately or by chance?

I'm thinking of trying this out, have an Achilles issue that is totally fine doing fast strides 14-16 sec 100m, but craps out on runs of 7:00 min pace after a few miles, every time I do 4-6 strides (usually twice a week.100-150m) the following days run it feels better.

My thought process is what if I build up to 15-20 100's or 12x200 at a moderately fast pace 2x a week it could help iron out the kinks in my stride that may be causing the Achilles issue(which has been treated with everything you can think of so no need to suggest rehab)

Anyone ever gotten rid of an injury with faster strides?

It this is working for you, keep doing it while you attempt to find the root cause of your problems.

Some people find IT band syndrome responds to this too, since the knee angle when you run fast is not as severe, so your IT band is not as compressed against your femur.

i did 25 x100 today with a gimpy foot. Felt good during the session and feels good now. Hoping, like you, that it helps me develop better mechanics at slower paces as well. At least it felt good to get in a good workout without aggravating it.

Thinking wrote:

...the Achilles issue(which has been treated with everything you can think of so no need to suggest rehab)

Please humor me for a minute and bullet-point list "everything" you've done to rehab it.

You can test the Stanish Protocol for Achille injury. It was good for me.

Heel drops were the only thing that solved my achilles issues. Took about 2 weeks of doing them every other day or so and it seems to solve the problem for a few months. Then it comes back and I do them again, and it goes away again. Now I can train through this issue if I start doing the heel drop routine as soon as I start to notice the issue, whereas before only many days or a week off would solve the problem.

bumping to hear more anecdotes

Eccentric heel drops till you drop. I have insertional tendonitis and Haglund's on both sides. This means I can't do them on a step without more pain, but I can still do them on a flat surface. 3 x 15 on each leg twice per day. Seems like such a silly solution but they are like magic. But as someone above said, if you stop doing them you will most likely have to start again because the pain will return.

fat dude wrote:

bumping to hear more anecdotes

Not exactly the same issues as you are describing, but I had a mild case of ITB pain for almost a week before a local 10km race. I decided to just run the race anyway and accept the consequences later, but as soon as the gun off went all the pain in my ITB disappeared. After the race I kept waiting for the pain to come back, but it didn't. This was over 6 months ago now.