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It is so cold that my chronic, bitchy shin splints are aching.

Someone explain to me how shin splints can last for 12 years. TWELVE! That can’t even be right. They started back in my Gymnastics Days, but they never really went away, even when I stopped spending 80 percent of my time running around barefoot on half an inch of padding atop concrete.

All I know is that when I don’t get enough sleep, or when I’m stressed, or when it’s excruciatingly cold (and sometimes when it is very rainy), they ache. And ache and ache and ache.

…That might not be shin splints anymore. Maybe I just need new legs.