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Ooh, I like this group and this thread.
Welcome! BTW - Did you find my motivation on your way in here today??
Hi George! welcome! & thanks for your comment re shin strengthening & calf stretching. that's what seemed right to me too, but everything I read (& a personal trainer) said to do shin strengthening things.. just seemed to make them worse but I thought I might be wrong so kept trying them.
Thank you for the welcome. Nothing against shin strengthening at all. Just wasn't the thing that helped me. What will help can also depend on what kind of shin splints they are. I was misdiagnosed as an overpronator in a running store and put in stability shoes that caused extremely painful posterior shin splints. Today I run in neutrals with no problems. But I'm faithful about stretching the calves and achilles- they can be the root of all leg evils.
wanted to ask about doing weights along w/your recovery run. does this work well for you? I'm a fairly new runner, & seem to be always coming back from some injury or another. I've just added recovery runs, but have only done a little easy cardio with them so I don't irritate anything. but I have a hard time fitting everything in... another day to do weights would be great.