Minor stress fracture

I visited the podiatrist this morning. She showed me the X-rays. The report said there was no abnormality, and suggested an MRI.

There was in fact a long bright line on the tibia right where the most  inflammed part of the leg is, like someone had scratched my bone. She said she would keep the X-rays and get someone else to look at them.

It might be a very minor stress fracture of my shin. No wonder it was so painful. Oh well, that will keep me out of running for a while longer than a simple case of shin splints.

My shin was only a little bit sore to walk on today. The pain is going away fairly quickly with ice and anti inflamms and stretches.

Putting a positive spin on this, I have run over a thousand kilometres this year, I never expected to do that in my wildest dreams. It took  me  three years to  beat my maltracking patella, one to two months to recover from a stress fracture is nothng.