Went for Week 4 Run 3 saturday morning, and its the first run i have no completed...the dreaded shin splints reared there head again after 3km!
Will be re-attempting the run tonight, and will so some stretches beforehand! Slightly miffed, but im not giving up!
Well done... dynamic stretching, beforehand ,remember... and plenty of stretches afterwards
Try to land lightly too... we do have a tendency some of us in these early runs ( and even later on sometimes:)) to thump down a bit with our feet...Try to land gently...It is what I call kissing the ground with your feet.. it works..
Thanks OldFloss, just been googling some stretches to try, so will give that a whirl tonight, thank you.
Do you know for sure it's shin splints?
99% sure - i started the C25K earlier on in the year and suffered for the first couple of weeks, but it seems to have caught up with me a little later in the programme this time, not quite as bad luckily.
Just hoping for a bit of advice to minimise the pain, and the duration really.
If it's shin splint you could do with getting a physio referral from your GP.
You shouldn't be running!
Running is all in the calves and in new runners they are weak. So we have to build them up safely. A physio referral will help with that as you will get specific exercises to do, e.g. Heel drops, foot lifts etc but in a timely fashion to suit your problem.
I did exercises for weeks and weeks, with no running. When I got back to running it was only for 2 mins every third day. It's very serious! I thought I had definitely fractured my leg as the pain was so severe
It wasn't severe at first so I kept running. Don't make that mistake. Get to your doc!
Ah that doesnt sound good. I have only persevered as it occured previously but only for a week or 2, and then felt fine, so was hoping to get to that stage again.
They are not exctruciating, so wasnt overly concerned.
Shin splints 
Shin splints?
Shin splints!!!
Shin splints!!!
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