This morning I decided to get up at 6am (really 6:15) and get in a tempo run, the plan was 10 minutes warmup at about 9:30 min/mile, then 7:15 min/mile for 20 minutes followed by 10 minute cooldown.

Well I ran the first mile in 9:31 and then I went into the tempo part, next mile in 7:15 (bang on target) and then things went wrong.

My shins started to get sore on both legs, and at one point my leg didn’t move forward when it should have.

So I slowed down for a while and my next miles were 7:43, 8:04 & 8:30.

Back home and after a lot of stretching I did a lot of icing of my shins, hopefully this was a one off, otherwise I will need to rethink the pace I’m running at.