I took today off from running. And I plan to take the rest of this week and next week off. Hopefully these again splints clear up quick. I’m doing everything I know to do to work them out, so we’ll see. But today Rosie woke up with a stiff neck. She held the side of her neck all day. Poor girl! She refused to take any medicine for the pain because she was convinced it would make her throw-up.
Adam came home for lunch and held her while the others climbed all over him.
I have shin splints again and it is the worst. I can barely walk today. They’ve been coming on for a couple weeks now, and in hindsight-and for the future-I know what I need to do to try to prevent them in the first place. It was around this time last year that I dealt with the same thing. It took a couple months to admit to myself that I needed to take time off running. It’s just so hard to do that. But this time, I know, right this second, I need to stop running. My plan is the rest of this week and next week, no running. I have a half marathon at the end of July that I’d really like to do, so now is the time for me to rest. My goal for that half marathon is under 2 hours. I think it’s completely doable-but perhaps I’ll need to work a little harder since I’ll be resting for nearly 2 weeks. To be honest I wouldn’t be as concerned about my diagnosis of it weren’t for the race coming up. I’ve been researching the heck out of the topic, so I feel pretty confident in what I need to do. I’m just hoping my body cooperates. I ran 6.5 miles this morning including hill-repeats. It all felt okay…not perfect, but pretty good. And last Saturday I ran a glorious 11 miles. That felt super great. So I was a little bummed my shins hurts so bad.
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