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Shin (Tibia bone) pain. Or muscle pain on outside front of your leg (Tibialis Anterior)
Shin splints are micro fractures of the bones, which is unsurprisingly painful to run on. If you can't bare to do 10+ single leg hops, then bashing out a 5k run with circa 5000 steps is a bit silly.
If I haven't ran for a while, I often get Tib Ant pain. I revert to slow cadence with a longer stride length, resulting in a heel strike... The heel strike then translates to Tib Ant being stretched under load which soon starts to hurt.
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I've been happily declining into middle age for a while, but after a health scare a few years back i started doing a bit here and there. I like cycling obviously but i really enjoy running. Unfortunately i seem to pick up shin pain easily at the moment. I never used to when i ran more often so i'm hoping it'll wear off. I've slowly increased my miles although im deliberately only running once a week.to the point where i'm comfortable pootling about the park run. I've had gait analysis and suchlike and bought the expensive trainers (worth it for the sales bloke looking aghast when i said i usually ran in converse or boots depending on the weather).
The shin pain is still flaring up occasionally so i was wondering if the more experienced runners here have any ideas to limit it and eventually remove it all together?