Subject: Shin Splints/Stress Fracture I made a serious mistake, about 6 weeks ago. I had planned to do a 30 minute time trial run. I usually do this on a soft track. However, I had to take my son swimming, so I decided to just run on the sidewalk (I know....foolish ). Well, the hard sidewalk combined with a 30 minute all out run, I developed a very serious case of shin splints (maybe even a stress fracture ).
So, I took off for 6 weeks from running (kept up the biking and swimming and added elliptical ).
All the pain was gone (most of the pain is when I touched the area that was hurt ). So, I decided to do a 1 min run and 1 min walk - for 30 minutes (15 min of running / 15 min of walking ). Shins were a little sore, but not to bad (only sore when touched ).
Next, I tried strides (and doubled my rest time between the 6 strides ).
Well, the pain is back - not when running or walking --- just when touched.
Needless to say, I am very frustrated!!! I thought FOR SURE that 6 weeks off would have been enough time to heal this.
How long is this going to be a problem???
Thanks. |