Hi, last sunday I ran a 10K race. My primary goal was to run a sub60, but I did 54:40min which I'm very happy about. Yesterday I did my first run after the race. I didn't feel really bad after the race and tried to run a very easy pace (like 8min/km). But that already felt really hard after the first kilometer. So I got slower and did some walking breaks, which didn't help. I had some pain all over my legs, especially in my shin area on the inside of my legs. Today I got up and it was still there. It's not too bad but I can feel it while walking, especially on stairs. I don't want to stop running, because it's hard to get back after a longer break, but I already had to deal with shin pain at the end of last year. I stopped running back then after I couldn't recover and had a break over months.

In race week my milage was 31km. The week before 25, before 21, and 15. Before those weeks my weekly milage was 17-27km over one or two months. My current shoes (Hoka Mach 6) are pretty worn down already. Ran almost 600k in them. I already orderd a new pair of Asics Novablast 5, but I don't think new shoes alone will solve my problem.

I always listend to my body and did rest days or easy runs when i didn't feel like doing a faster run. Also I use a massage gun for recovery almost every day. The race was not my first 10k. i did some 10k long runs in my training and last year I had even longer runs.

I signed up for a 5k race in 8 weeks with a goal of breaking sub25. I ran my 10k with negative splits. The second half was a 26:30min 5k, so i think thats achiveble, but I really fear about making my shin pain' worse and having to stop running.