OK, people I know what you're thinking - WHAT! She's training for something again??
Yes, I must admit, I signed myself & Sea for a 1/2 marathon to do with a bunch of other "B'lites" and it just came up quick, WAY too quick. Especially since we had snow so late this year.
Unfortunately I learned about a little thing called "shin splints." I will be the first to tell you that this here injury is NO FUN! I was on my way home tonight crossing the Brooklyn Bridge - right on that downhill home stretch. Usually I am loving that point because you feel like a serious athlete sprinting with great stride down the last 1/4 mile of the bridge (Manhattan to Brooklyn). Then it happened this excruciating pain down the front of my leg - my shins were on FIRE!!!
It was crippling. Sea noticed I had fallen behind and was doubled over. I walked the rest of the way home and spent the rest of the night reading up on shin splints. I iced my anterior tibia for 15 minutes, took 600mg ibuprofen and called it a night. My plan is to do no more than stretching for the rest of the week and continue with my icing and stretch routine to see if I can still run this race in Saturday.....
Avoid overuse injury people! Its horrible!
Owie! Rest up and I hope all is on the mend and ready for the race :) You two are my fitness heros ! Seriously! ;)
ReplyDeleteOh so sorry!!! We hope all heals well for the race... How did it go? Jean-Marie
ReplyDeleteThanks! It went great! I scaled back quite a bit, so that I could actually finish the race. I slowed my pace by about 60-90 seconds/mile and that did the trick! I finished slightly sore and injury free!
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