Been to the hospital for an MRI this week and just received the results today - stress fractures in both tibias - can't believe it.
I've been experiencing pain since the marathon in September and took 6 weeks off from running up until Christmas, did two X-country races in December, experienced pain again, took another 6 weeks off and did another race at end of February - you guessed it - pain again and hobbling around for days afterwards. Decided it was time to do to docs and as I say had an MRI last week.
This was completely my own fault - running 20 miles the week after a marathon was not a good idea. So I would say to everyone be very careful and listen to your body, I'm bloody miserable now especially since I now can't run the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday and have to comsole myself with sitting in the stands at the Madeskji Stadium watching the end of the race.
I've been told not to do anything (lower body wise) for 12 weeks. Miserable.
I've been experiencing pain since the marathon in September and took 6 weeks off from running up until Christmas, did two X-country races in December, experienced pain again, took another 6 weeks off and did another race at end of February - you guessed it - pain again and hobbling around for days afterwards. Decided it was time to do to docs and as I say had an MRI last week.
This was completely my own fault - running 20 miles the week after a marathon was not a good idea. So I would say to everyone be very careful and listen to your body, I'm bloody miserable now especially since I now can't run the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday and have to comsole myself with sitting in the stands at the Madeskji Stadium watching the end of the race.
I've been told not to do anything (lower body wise) for 12 weeks. Miserable.