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Pain is down the front. I done the method similiar to steves. By using the bone of bog toe and putting the cleat ~15mm back from the indent/marker on the cleat. To be honest ive been fucking about with the left cleat because it didnt feel right as in not getting optimum power. Think will.leave as it was fine on my big mile commute this morning as well.
musa
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Is the pain down the front of the shin? I've had pain down the outside of my right shin for a while. I think it's a combo of not enough arch support plus tight ITB and hamstring for me. I did find it got worse when I moved my cleats inward so my feet were slightly further apart. This also made my knees feel funny.
I'm not a bike fitter, but I believe generally cleats further back on the shoe is "safer" as long as you drop saddle height a little to compensate for the reduced effective leg length. Definitely better for achilles and knee related stuff, but maybe also for shin?
I think Steve Hogg's cleat fitting page is definitely worth a look. From memory his process is something along the lines of: find the 'knuckles' where your big and little toe join the rest of the foot, mark where they are on the sides of the shoe, draw a line across the sole between them, then put the centre of the cleat a little less than a cm behind the line.