The splints were back with a vengance after my run last night. Having completed a 4km circuit on Saturday, Monday, and Thursday it was very annoying. I iced my shins after the run as reccomended on some website that I had read and this helped reduce the pain quite nicely. I believe the splints came about due to being somewhat tired (11:30pm sleep on wednesday) and not consiously attemting to minimise my inner foot impact.

I have found  through experimentation that running while attempting to put as much weight on the outside of my feet reduces the problem, and also lifting my toes while running seems to make some difference. Whether or not this is good practice however I don't know, and I plan to see a physio if I still have splint problems next week. For the time being I might head back to the shoe shop and change the inner sole of my shoes for one with more support as this will supposedly help too.

As for the jogging I am currently doing 3x4km per week with once again the shin splints being what is holding me back more than muscle fatigue or anything like that. The current pace is 6min/km and that includes a few short walking spells up the steeper hills. If I can get my shin splint problem solved I should be able to upgrade to 5 runs a week without a problem.