Marathon Training – Day 89
Conflicting advice about shin slints abounds! Firstly, some people I’ve talked to, and some people on the interweb who’ve seen my youtube videos, seem to think that because of where the pain in my leg is, it’s unlikely to be shin slints at all. Then those who do think it’s shin splints, are split in the advice. One school of thought is “walk it off and run through it” and the other is pretty much the polar opposite “don’t do anything on it or you’ll do untold damage”
I’m not 100% sure what the hell to do, but what I can tell you is that after 5 days of not running on it at all, it’s still sore/tender to touch, I know for a fact it will hurt like hell if I run on it, and it was starting to cause me some serious discomfort when I walked up Djouce Mountain today. We weren’t going at a fast pace, it was very calm and relaxed, but about an hour into the walk (in proper light-weight hiking boots FYI) it was sore.
Anyway, the sum total of today’s exercise was a long walk about the Djouce mountain in wicklow. It’s definitely better than nothing, and given the inactivity over the last couple of days since I hurt my leg on Monday, I was just happy to be doing anything that constitutes exercise. I’m going to try and go to the gym tomorrow for a cycle. I’m really reluctant to push the leg though, for the simple reason that this day two weeks I’m going skiing, and the marathon is still 9 months away, so my priority is making sure I can ski pain free and not lose about €1000 because I overdo it in the gym or in the park out of stubbornness.
Anyway here’s a photo from up Djouce today, which officially counts as day 89 of marathon training!
Ryan Phillips training day 89 for the Dublin City Marathon 2010 – 23 January 2010
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