Posts from — August 2007

QUERY:

A reader and marathon clinic participant writes, “Hey Doc, last year when I joined the Honolulu Marathon Clinic, I developed shin splints.  Fortunately they went away and I completed my first marathon.   Now I’m beginning to run again and I don’t want them back.

RESPONSE:

This is a good news bad news situation.  The good news is shin splints are usually a “first year” phenomenon and when individuals train properly, shin splints rarely return in the second year of training. 

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