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My 10k training is getting pretty tough, and I might need to skip a run or two from some lower shin pain. I think I’m improving but still have a ways to go to get my pace to 9-minute miles for the race.
Japanese is a blast but very challenging as well. I’m wrapping some of the major grammar points for my proficiency test in December. The main focus now is “elevating others” and “lowering yourself” correctly.
What’s fascinating to me about this is to do it correctly you have to know who the subject is. And since subjects are often implied by context in Japanese, you have to be correctly tracking quite a bit more than simpler “change I ate an apple to I didn’t eat an apple.”
I’m still playing piano but have decided between the race and the test I have to dial music theory back a bit until December. Still enjoying playing songs though.
If you have stress fractures you need time to heal, and possibly a physician.
In the case of normal shin splints though, have you tried incorporating tibia raises? I have never gotten shin splints after I added a few sets a couple of times a week. You can use a dumbell and a bench if your gym doesn't have a machine for them, which is like 99.9% of gyms. Just sit on the bench and extend your legs like a leg extension, holding the dumbell in your feet. Then lower and extend your feet. It can help to sit further back then you would for a leg extention, and to incline the seat by a notch.
You can also do them against a wall, but I don't feel like that is as effective.
Appreciate the suggestions. I’m not sure what it was but today I feel fine. I’ve gotten pains before at the top of my tibia near my knee but that’s been ok. This was weird in that it was soreness lower down by my ankle. I ran 4 miles last night though and today it’s perfectly fine.
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