Still not sure where this is going

I had two difficult runs on Tuesday and Wednesday. Not from a fitness standpoint, but rather from a knee pain standpoint. My hamstring is still tightening up, but i was also having some difficulty with my lateral knee (IT band area). I was getting frustrated, but trying to stay resilient.

I discussed things with Kristen, and we both agree that its possible that I'm the person irritating the thing. I tend to go overboard with the soft tissue massage and foam rolling etc. So the plan was that Kristen would do a heavy dose of graston technique on me (tuesday night) and then i would leave it alone for a week, with the exception of stretching.

I think my soreness yesterday came from all of the graston stuff on Tuesday night. Its a really really deep and painful massage technique, but it works wonders. So anyway, this morning I used a little bit of Voltaren on the knee, did some bis/tri's at the gym, and then went to work. I noticed throughout the workday that it didn't seem to be very sore. I went to the gym after work to do some running on the treadmill, and it went pretty well. I'm not sure if it was the treadmill, graston, leaving it alone or Voltaren, but something helped because it was a good solid run.

I'm curious to see what happens tomorrow, but my hamstring is still tightening up at about 2.8 miles or so. I'm going to wait until that stops and then work it up for 4 miles. Keeping it slow and easy for now...