“So you just kept going.” “Precisely. So about a week later it still hurt, but worse. My coach said, ‘Run it off, it’s just shin splints.’” “Let me guess. It wasn’t.” “That’s cheating. I already told you I had a stress fracture. But at that point I didn’t know, so I just did what my coach said and kept running. Eight, nine, ten miles a day, the tiny crack growing until finally it hurt to even walk. My mom took me to get a bone scan, and the doctor said if I’d kept running the tibia would have split vertically. I’d have had one leg over an inch shorter than the other.”
.... great looking out there Coach. ><
