Training Woes

The training has been going ok. My mileage has increased from mid-30's to very close to 50 miles per week and I suffered my first set back at this high mileage. My weekly totals over the last 3 weeks are 45, followed by 47, and last week I only did 27. The training strategy I am employing contains 3 medium length (10 miles) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and long runs on Saturday AND Sunday...pushing Liam in his stroller. I must have added to many miles to quickly.

Any time I add miles in training my muscles get "tweaky." That is, just on the verge of injury. In my opinion, that is where you want to be stress-wise to adapt to longer distances. My Achilles tendon has been tweaky all last last week. I made some adjustments in my stride to baby the tendon and this biomechanical mistake led to a real injury...shin splints. Instead of gutting it out through the pain I took my weekend runs off this week in hopes that I can get back on track and avoid further injury.