I'm supposed to be doing a 10 miler on Sunday (first race since the marathon in mid-September) and was really looking forward to it. I had a week off from running following the marathon and have just enjoyed doing whatever I felt like, ie, weight training mainly. Anyway, the second week after the marathon I did a 10 miler and the next week I did a 12 miler. All the time I was running the 12 I had a dull ache in my lower leg (more to the side of the shin than the front) so I'm thinking it's probably not shin splints. I've had these before and it's not the same pain.
I'm limping now and it does really hurt to put full pressure on the leg. I'm using ice every night and just trying to keep off it as much as possible hoping that I might get up one morning this week and it be cured! It hasn't got any better since the 12 miler at all.
I'm going to leave it until the last minute anyway to run or pull out of this race. The worst thing would be to start the race and have to stop half way around.
Has anybody out there had a stress fracture?
I'm limping now and it does really hurt to put full pressure on the leg. I'm using ice every night and just trying to keep off it as much as possible hoping that I might get up one morning this week and it be cured! It hasn't got any better since the 12 miler at all.
I'm going to leave it until the last minute anyway to run or pull out of this race. The worst thing would be to start the race and have to stop half way around.
Has anybody out there had a stress fracture?