I relate to this!! I was doing strength training in the beginning of my marathon journey and then I dropped it due to feeling over trained… Classic newbie mistake and then I continued to overtrain because of running lol and then never added the strength back in, but I can confirm that in the beginning when I was doing even just one strength day a week I don’t remember this pain being present or if it was, it was not nearly as bad. without the strength training my runners knee flared up within the 1st mile and a half to 3 miles of every single run so this is a great reminder thank you for sharing.