Willpower Wednesday!

Willpower Wednesday has once again rolled around.  There's just something about Wednesday's and running that just don't go together for me.  All of my other running days give me not trouble, but when Wednesday rolls around it takes all of the willpower I have not to go back to sleep for 30 more minutes.  I was successful, once again, however in overcoming the urge to sleep and instead going for a nice jog.  I'm starting to develop shin splints which is a pain in the...I guess...well...shin!  They're really painful, which stretching helps, but I asked a few friends for remedies and these are the answers I got:

Remedy 1: Stretch and ice!!  And run or jog or do whatever you were doing to get them in the first place as soon as you can bare the pain. They'll go away faster.  Take a dough roller and roll it down your shin. With some icy hot cream.

Remedy 2: I do a hot tub-cold pool shock treatment. Heat to bring blood to the area and increase inflammation - help with healing. Cold shock to bring the inflammation back down.  Stretch it out and burn through the pain. Also you can massage the area, but it hurts a bunch.

Remedy 3: You should alternate between heat & ice...Not long, like 7 min of each after you work out...Start with ice.

I'm liking the first remedy a lot because although, as Remedy 2 says, massaging it is painful, it also feels so good in a way. I'm going to do a combination of all three.  Hopefully they go away sooner rather than later!!

I'm off to do the Shred!!

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