The Walk..the walk..let yo' body talk...

The Infamous Shin
Pic from Gray's Anatomy

Hmm...I'm back to walking. Not speed walking, which actually asks a lot of your shins, but plain old leisurely walking - in the park, around the block, to the grocery store. That's it. I tried to take an easy run over to my friend Noah's studio on Friday to see the project he's been working on with my friend Gregoire. I figured, "It's less than 2 miles away according to HopStop.com, so why not take the opportunity to ease back into running with a relatively short distance?"

Less than halfway into the run, my shin exploded. Backward. It felt like a powerful force was pulling my left shin inward. A shin-plosion. The thing that's annoying about this is that I have no symptoms when I'm not running. I thought that all the resting I've been doing was plenty. Not so.

I'm icing and taking ibuprofen and reading up on shin splints and how to heal them. My friend, Kerry sent me an article about it to start me off. He's a good man. A mighty mighty good man.