After my first run I felt really good and kept up my schedule of running every other day for the rest of the week, but on the third run I was starting to get pretty bad shin splints.
Now I'm no stranger to this, it's a common complaint in beginners and this is my fourth attempt at starting to run, but these were much worse than anything I'd felt before. So I made sure to stretch properly, and after taking a rest day I felt fine, so went on my fourth run as planned. Big mistake. The pain was even worse and continued even after I stopped running.
So I hobbled back home and iced my shins and calves, but I've been stiff and achey through my whole lower legs and even my knees for the past six days now. Obviously I haven't run since, except for the train which hurt like hell.
Leaving the muscles to recover seems to be working slowly, but the problem is I'm not sure what is causing them. A bit of googling gave me so many different causes of shin splints, from improper shoes to poor form to cold weather... not very helpful.
If anyone out there has any good advice for me or experience with shin splints I would love to hear it?
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