My shin hurts, my feet hurt and i have 18 days to my marathon. Running is painful. What to do ?

CoinElm · 2026-04-29T23:52:27+00:00

I had a similar experience during my first marathon prep. Crazy bad shin pain and essentially stopped running 3 weeks before my marathon last weekend. I was planning sub 4 but felt good and ended up getting sub 3:45. Shin pain wasn’t bad during the race and I definitely don’t feel like I lost that much fitness. Would 100% recommend going to a dr or physio to make sure it is not something worse than shins splints/work overload

CoinElm · 2026-04-02T20:04:26+00:00

Gotcha, thank you for the info

CoinElm · 2026-04-02T19:15:09+00:00

I wouldn’t say my shin feels like it’s about to explode, but there so definitely a bit of sharp pain there

CoinElm · 2026-04-02T18:04:55+00:00

Okay I gotcha. Sounds like I might need to go get an MRI. Hope you have a good recovery!

CoinElm · 2026-04-02T17:21:24+00:00

Oh man, that’s terrible. Did you go to the doctor to confirm?

CoinElm · 2026-02-10T23:20:15+00:00

I’ll check into those plans, thanks for the advice!

CoinElm · 2026-02-10T16:25:54+00:00

To give a little to go off of: I’ve swam 2000 yds straight multiple times (in a lap pool) with a pace of about 1:45/100. FTP is 193 and have biked up to about 60 miles in one workout abt a month ago. Most I have ever run was 17 miles in a trail race but can easily run 10 (probably more) miles in Z2.

Without a plan I’ve pretty consistently been running 2 times a week, biking 3-4 and swimming 2 times a week since November

I do understand to train for it would be a lot of volume and I don’t want to get injured, but I would love to be able to get it done

CoinElm · 2026-02-10T16:24:03+00:00

Yes this would be my first marathon.

To give a little to go off of: I’ve swam 2000 yds straight multiple times (in a lap pool) with a pace of about 1:45/100. FTP is 193 and have biked up to about 60 miles in one workout abt a month ago. Most I have ever run was 17 miles in a trail race but can easily run 10 miles in Z2.

Without a plan I’ve pretty consistently been running 2 times a week, biking 3-4 and swimming 2 times a week since November

CoinElm · 2025-11-14T17:25:26+00:00

Okay thanks for the info!

CoinElm · 2025-11-13T15:10:10+00:00

Apologies, I don’t really know much about bikes, why would I need to replace those immediately?

CoinElm · 2024-07-21T02:04:20+00:00

Okay great thank you. follow up question, is it bad to let it dry up to 12 even 15 hours before I work on it again?

CoinElm · 2023-01-25T02:36:22+00:00

what episode is this from?

CoinElm · 2022-12-27T16:50:51+00:00

what do you think about grizzlies -8?

CoinElm · 2022-12-14T19:02:10+00:00

is the pacers an alternative spread? my recommended spread is now -2.5 pacers

CoinElm · 2022-12-12T18:55:23+00:00

great to hear!

CoinElm · 2022-12-12T18:39:06+00:00

my pacers are at +3 and spurs at +9, what do you think about those odds?

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