The only way to get 8 hours of sleep was to sleep in and run on the treadmill, and I'll do another run this evening if my leg allows. My legs felt ok during the run, I was playing with the idea of doing two 10K paced miles in the middle, but my legs didn't feel fresh enough. I stretched after one mile, then hopped back on the treadmill. Boring! When I got off one ankle felt weak, BAD! BAD! But after walking a little I realized its that inside tendon which was giving me trouble in April/1st half of May. I am two days away from a race, so instead of waiting to see how it feels tomorrow I made an appt with Dr. Brady this afternoon and am currently icing it. I hope its not a true setback of that injury. These are the risks of higher mileage. 7:40 pace, 1.5% grade, 7 miles Ok, so my pain went away about 1-1.5 hours after my run. But it was probably the 800mg IB because it started to hurt again in the afternoon, I could feel it more going up stairs. Not a bad pain but there. Dr. Brady says it's probably from running too many miles on the treadmill after not running on it at all, possibly also aggravated by my Wed. workout. The way he explained this injury to me before was that it was tendonitis, from tight calf and hamstring muscles. Today he called it shin splints. I said, I thought it was tendonitis. He said that's the problem with a diagnosis. When he first was talking to me about it he was comparing it to achilles tendonitis, it was a tendon issue but not achilles tendonitis. According to him, shin splints is a low grade stress fracture, and that whenever there is a stress fracture there is also tendonitis, that the bone, muscle and tendons are not in a vacuum so if there's a problem with one there is very likely a problem with the other. So I need to read up more on shin splints because my pain is on the inside of my shin bone, and inch or two to the inside. I thought shin splints was just on the shin bone, but he says no. So Dr. Brady said I should take this evening and tomorrow off, but he is also an advocate of not running every day, so it's hard to take his advice verbatim. I think I may take the day off tomorrow though just because if I did run it would be only for 5 or less miles, and those miles might do more harm than good. He did ultrasound, electro-acupuncture and worked the heck out of the shin area, digging in his forearms. I thought I was going to die! He also worked my groin lightly a bit. I think I'll post this in the injury discussion forum to get the community's take on this injury in general.
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