All My Hard Work Down The Drain

_Waffle_
_Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
edited March 2015 in Social Groups
Monday: March 23, 2015
This is the second week of tapering. My right shin is sore. It has been for a few weeks. I shouldn't have gone 400 miles on those shoes. No, it's all the rain's fault. My dirt track is a swamp and all the speedwork on the concrete is what did it to me. No, it was too many weeks over 50 miles. You should have backed off sooner. Wait, it was that fast finish on the 20 mile run. No, It was the speedwork the week after that. Should have skipped that one.

Skipping my 5 mile run this morning. I'll do it tomorrow. I don't even need to hit 30 this week.

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  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    edited March 2015
    Tuesday: March 24, 2015.
    I got dressed and tried to run this morning. It feels like I'm limping. I KNOW it feels better after I run a mile and it totally goes away by mile 5 but it's sore. Better skip this run too. You're going to crawl this entire marathon in a week and a half. All that training down the drain.... No wait! You just ran 12 this last weekend. This is just the 3rd day without running. You'll live.

    Skipping my 5 mile run. I might just wait till the end of the week. Sure I could take ibuprofen and not feel it at all but I want it healed.

    ... Changed goal pace to 9:45. That's still a 4:15 time. Yeah. That's good still. I bet it will be 75 degrees anyway.
  • alikonda
    alikonda Posts: 2,358 Member
    *hugs*
  • kristinegift
    kristinegift Posts: 2,406 Member
    If it eases your mind at all, three weeks before my marathon last October, I had horrible ITBS. It ached constantly and I could barely run for two weeks before the race. On race day, I braced myself for 26.2 miles of increasingly unbearable pain, but the knee didn't give me one bit of trouble through the entire distance! I hope your shin takes a page out of my knee's book. Just think of it as a very forceful taper.

    I totally understand the frustration though. I hope your shin gets back in line very soon!
  • DonPendergraft
    DonPendergraft Posts: 520 Member
    It is what it is. There is nothing you can do about it but accept it and move forward! I'm always second guessing myself leading up to a race. Always.
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    If it eases your mind at all, three weeks before my marathon last October, I had horrible ITBS. It ached constantly and I could barely run for two weeks before the race. On race day, I braced myself for 26.2 miles of increasingly unbearable pain, but the knee didn't give me one bit of trouble through the entire distance! I hope your shin takes a page out of my knee's book. Just think of it as a very forceful taper.

    I totally understand the frustration though. I hope your shin gets back in line very soon!

    You're correct. Just like eating good for 4 months and missing a couple days doesn't make you fat. Taper, taper, taper. Forced tapering at any rate. I already know that taking a few ibuprofen makes it go away 100% for the rest of the day thanks to a headache from drinking too much one Thursday night. I just want to run on it without any outside assistance.

    It's better already. I can't feel it at all walking around during the day. My actual shin bone isn't sore at all. It's just a muscle or something on the inside of the leg behind the bone that's irritated. Probably skipping tomorrow too. We'll see. I might get dressed, go out and then see how it feels in the morning. At least I'll know. Despite all the worry I still feel like I'll get a new PR easily.
  • JTick
    JTick Posts: 2,131 Member
    Are you foam rolling your shin? That always seems to help relax my muscles when I get a shin spint.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Ice them and try Aleve.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    Taper madness. It will drive you crazy! Seriously, you will be fine. Try not to over think it. It is quite normal to have all kinds of aches and pains during a taper because your body is finally taking that sigh of relief from everything you just put it through and heading into repair mode. It's why we taper. I would suggest doing some google searches on it. You will find lots of info soreness and pain during a taper, why it happens and how to survive it. Hopefully it will help to ease your mind. By the time you get to marathon day, you will be feeling great and ready to go!!!
  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    lporter229 wrote: »
    Taper madness. It will drive you crazy! Seriously, you will be fine. Try not to over think it. It is quite normal to have all kinds of aches and pains during a taper because your body is finally taking that sigh of relief from everything you just put it through and heading into repair mode. It's why we taper. I would suggest doing some google searches on it. You will find lots of info soreness and pain during a taper, why it happens and how to survive it. Hopefully it will help to ease your mind. By the time you get to marathon day, you will be feeling great and ready to go!!!

    The funny thing is that this was a slight annoyance several weeks ago but nothing really. II was getting up every morning and doing 8 - 20 miles with no issue. Once I stopped running nearly every day and cut back on miles, that's when this felt like an actual issue. It's as if tapering made the issue worse. Crazy but true.

    It looks like this is a fairly common issue. I found some pretty interesting columns on this that do make me feel better.

    https://invertedsneakers.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/phantom-pains-and-taper-tantrums/

  • _Waffle_
    _Waffle_ Posts: 13,049 Member
    I did 3.2 miles this morning and it felt about 90% right from the start and it's totally gone after 2 miles. Monday's run didn't feel near this good. I still have 3 more days so I'm really optimistic now and not worried at all.

    Last week I was worried about it enough to have it x-rayed to check for any fractures. LOL
  • litsy3
    litsy3 Posts: 783 Member
    Get a sports massage.