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Well that was a bit tough on the shins!

Not out of breath at all but the legs!

I stretched as shown, tried to relax a little bit more and took it easy.

The front of my shins get really hard in the muscles.

About 4 inches above the ankle bone on the outside of the leg follow the tendon and muscle up, I have a lump that's there all the time, about 50p size, yesterday while shuffling along the pain on that point got worse and the lump swelled a little and was rock hard, normally it's there but a soft.

Any ideas over what the lump could be?

I have a smaller one on the left but that not as painful and did not swell.

Any help please in getting past this hurdle, I can got into week 3 there's now way the shins will do it.

After resting when I get back there is no pain just as normal once rested for 15-30 minutes, time I have had a shower etc all gone, little

Lump is still there but soft again no pain.

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I used to suffer from tight calves and pains in my shins, for the shins, I bought a pair ankle supports, like these:

amazon.co.uk/Nike-Ankle-Com...

They were on offer at the time and I thought I'd try them and they work great.

Try changing your running shoes, it may help.

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