Running Gurus: Would you recommend shin splint support?

This part of runnersworld.com has a wealth of information on shin splints. I don’t remember ever actually having pain in my shins so I can’t offer any personal advice.

My daughter had chronic shin splints from running as an adolescent and was told to find other sports. She now skies, hikes and rides mountain bikes, a lot.

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@gailcalled – I kept reading skies as the plural of sky and I couldn’t figure out what it meant, then I realised skies, heheheh. I hope the whole day doesn’t go like this!

@rooeytoo: The plural of ski is, of course, skis. It isn’t the first time that my overzealous auto-correct has taken over.. I turn my back on it for one minute and it runs amok. This happens regularly.

Your day will be just fine. It is mine that may be cursed.

It’s not a plural, it’s a third person singular.
But the spelling is ‘skis’ in that case, too.

@gailcalled – heheh, thank goodness I am not loosing my mind. But then again I might be because I was willing to accept that it was correct as it stood. Nonetheless my day so far has been quite good, but it is only lunch time!

@dabbler – I don’t know what you mean, ski, skis is a verb. Sky and skies are nouns??? So what do you mean by third person singular???

Sorry @pleiades – didn’t mean to turn this into a grammar lesson. Yep good advice is to ride your bike or use elliptical until the shin splint is better. I am battling with a sore knee at the moment, wearing a patella band. So I am resigned to boring times on the elliptical because by the time of day I am ready to go there is too much traffic for bicycling!

@rooeytoo : (Losing my mind.)

First person singular: I ski

Second person singular; you ski (or thou skieth)

Third person singular; she skis.

She left her skis outside the lodge.

gk@gailcalled – I have a lisp today so I really am loosing mine, hehehe!

@rooeytoo:Thorry to hear that.

@gailcalled got the verb declension enumerated properly. In the context it was first used, ‘skis’ was a singular verb, rather than a plural noun.

But what to do about shin splints….
I know lots of people insist that folks land on their heels when running, then roll forward.
ALL of the people I ever knew who got shin splints are heel-strikers.
I suggest instead landing on the middle of the foot or forefoot, like a sprinter, this lets the ankle joint take a lot of the shock of the footfall and avoids transmitting it up the leg bones.
None of the forefoot strikers I knew when I was running a lot ever had shin splints.
(based on anecdotal information, your mileage may vary)