Another pair of running shoes and no more shin splints!

I can’t believe it’s been over a week since my last post! I’ve been running, but I just feel unmotivated to blog about anything. Good things are happening, though, and I wanted to share with all of my wonderful readers as well as document things for myself.

I got a new pair of shoes on Saturday and I have logged seven glorious miles without any shin pain! Yea buddy! Two doctors visits and two shoe stores later, I went to the New Balance store and was lucky enough to be assisted by the wonderful manager, Jeff, who literally spent two hours with me while I tried on different shoes, different insoles ran around outside to see how I liked them. Now, I’m a mild pronator with medium arches who people want to put in a stability/motion control shoe. Makes sense, right? Except that it’s possible that being in the stability/motion control shoe was actually causing my shin splints. Lovely. I guess that’s why the second store put me into the Brooks Glycerin – except that they were too big so they weren’t offering enough support for my feet. I ended up with the New Balance 883 cushioning shoe with an arch support and I love them! I have also been doing lots of calf stretches and working on strengthening my shin muscles so I know that it’s helping too. I do realize that I still need to keep tabs on them to make sure that it doesn’t develop into something more serious, but for now I’m super excited to be running without shin pain.

C and I are running in our third race on Saturday and we’re both feeling kinda “eh” about it. I think it’s because we are so just so exhausted and ready for the school year to be over! I would really rather sleep in than run three miles but we are signed up so we’ll muster and I’m sure it will be a lot of fun.