7 miles friday night.2 miles saturday afternoon.
3 miles sunday morning.
all fairly painful. Shin feels like it's getting better... the pain goes away reasonably quickly after I've stopped running... hopefully thats not just the ibuprofen i'm taking. i'm back to a point where the pain moves up and down the anterior tibialis. With icing, there seems to be a specific part of the upper muscle that is sore, and when running the tightness and pain eventually kicks in a bit lower down (in the diagram, where the muscle gets thinner and crosses over the tibia). Cross training today and tomorrow and wednesday morning. Will try and get myself to a swimming pool too to add that type of work to my legs... read somewhere that kickboard stuff helps the shin muscles... flexibility/bloodflow, and the like.
Another doctors appointment on wednesday. I guess right now I'd like either a couple of cortisone shots to reduce the swelling in the muscle... or to be referred to a good physical therapist who can go to town on my shin with their knuckles and elbows and thumbs and just work whatever damage there is in the muscle out.
my chances of running london are probably about 60-40 right now. if I didn't improve at all in the next three weeks I just couldn't run it... unless maybe I was extremely overdosed on painkillers, which probably wouldn't be a great idea... probably result in a stress fracture if I ran on it and couldn't feel the pain. If I need to take the time to recover and then put in a couple of months worth of fast stuff to try and peak again, I could always shoot for the san fran marathon at the end of July... best I concentrate on fixing this in the next week and then i'll run london fast and this will all be in the past.
