a8a0r8on

Last week I was 99% ready to give up on the marathon training. After a 2 mile run, my shins hurt for a couple of days pretty bad. The suddenly on the day of my next scheduled run they felt great. So, with no expectations at all, I did the run. The run was easy, but afterward the shins hurt and they have never hurt the day of a run before, only the day after. So I was sad. But then the next day they felt great! WTF!? So I ran again on my next scheduled day and again they hurt after the run, but not after that. Then today I ran again, this time 2.5 miles, my scheduled increment of .5 miles per week. It felt wonderful! I'm now reaching lengths of runs that it feels like a real run and not a jog. I thoroughly enjoyed this run more than almost any other.

But immediately afterward my shins felt like cantaloups walking back to the gym! Something definitely wasn't right. In the locker room I was fairly sure that they even felt hot to the touch. But it's hard to be sure since my entire body was hot and sweaty. Still, I am pretty sure they were swollen. I iced them and they almost immediately felt fine. Now, 2 hours later, they feel perfectly fine.

So I don't know what to think. I have a previously scheduled checkup with the foot doc next week and I'll tell him and let him make the call. I am pretty sure that he'll tell me to stop. So I still think it's not gonna happen. Enough that I'm starting to think about playing squash again. As soon as either I or the doc make the call, I'll be e-mailing Anton, the_macnab and la_chispa. In the meantime, I'll stick with the current plan. When a day of a scheduled run appears, I'll do it if my shins don't hurt that day.