<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

So, I've been training for my first marathon over the past month or so. Everything has been good, up until yesterday. Went out for a good 12 mile run. Well about 8 miles into it (also going uphill at this point) I get this sharp pain in my left upper thigh. Now I know I should have stopped, but stubborn and stupid me decided to just push thru the pain until it eventually went away, and it did. Finally get home and rest. Next morning I wake up and feel that sharp pain is back with a vengeance. Now I can walk fine but if I sit down too long without moving and then move, I'll feel the pain. Or if I attempt to jog I can feel slightly feel it again. But I don't have any issues bending, stretching as per my usual routine before running. Like I said, I can walk around fine and do everything I usually do, I just don't want to cause any additional harm.

I have been googling possible causes and have determined it's cancer or malaria, kidding. But I did come upon something called Iliotibial Band syndrome (ITBS), and it seems to describe exactly what I have been feeling. My questions is, to those who have had this or something similar, what was your recovery procedure like. I've been following RICE recently. But I wanted to know if any, more experienced runners have tips, suggestions for me.
<bot>: minor injury (I believe) while running. Upper thigh area. Seems like ITBS, tips/suggestions on recovery. Yes Ive been following RICE.