Racing a mile on a newfound stress fracture.

nope, you risk adding complications to your injury and delaying the recovery.

Not only will you not pr, but racing will worsen the fracture and lengthen your recovery time. If you were going for points, it might be worth it to try to run on it, but since you are not, just scratch and start cross training today.

This is an incredibly short sighted decision. Nothing quite like exerting a max effort on an injured leg. I suggest you heal up so you don’t make the situation worse.

I would recommend discussing the risks with your doctor. Depending on the specific location and grade of the stress fracture some injuries are lower risk that running through for a mile race could be reasonable, but there is always the risk of fracturing through and needing a surgery, especially if it is a high grade/high risk area, so these decisions should be individualized. As others have mentioned the safest route is to shut things down and recover.

Not running is almost certainly the best call. Shin splints are early bone injury. Now it's a stress fracture. Next on that continuum is Joe Theisman. Shin stress fracture heals fast without complication. Don't put yourself in another bucket.

The above answer is the right one. It's not what you want to hear, but please listen. It could literally save you months of recovery. One race is not worth it.

don't do it. it's fresh which means it can go from fracture to break. now, if you already been feeling pain for like 4-6 weeks then it would've already been recalcifying but that's not the case.

Worst comes to worst you severely aggravate the injury and set yourself back weeks or even months. I understand the anxiety about losing fitness, but you'll have no way to use that fitness if you're hurt. Take a deep breath and allow yourself to rest. Once you're back healthy and PRing you'll be glad you listened to your body

Are you HS aged? Take care of the injury and you'll be back at it soon enough. Set yourself up for long term success. You likely have years to set PBs.

Wt actual f? No, do not run on a stress fracture. Worst case scenario is you snap your lower leg in two. Take it from someone who lost 18 months of running due to a similar situation. Get in the pool yesterday.

Yep I'm in grade 11. This was gonna be one of my last races of the season. I'm going to get a x-ray this weekened but my physio told me he is 99% sure it is a stress fracture. The bone is insanely tender and even the tiniest bit of pressure I apply puts me in significant pain.

The internet has probably told you that x-ray is not diagnostic. Believe the internet.

Don't do it. If you recover properly, you can return to 100% after a stress fracture in your tibia in 2-3 months. With an actual fracture, you could easily be looking at 4-6 months and even longer if you end up needing surgery. I had a tibia fracture from a fall. It was just a centimeter away from needing pins and screws, etc. It took about 3 months before I could run on it. And it was about 2 years before it felt normal again. One race is not worth the risk. There will be many more in the future.

You sound like you need some perspective

I'm going to give you a different opinion, I'm very experienced with stress fractures and stress reactions, especially tibial ones.

First off, "My last workout I didnt feel any pain" tells me this may not be a true stress fracture but an early stress reaction which could be no big deal and may just be shin splits. In fact in a study done on elite distance runners that did not have any symptoms of a stress reaction found that 43% of them had a stress reaction show up on an MRI (https://ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/ajr.183.3.1830635). Again, those are runners with absolutely no symptoms of a stress reaction and the MRI still showed one. A true stress fracture and a serious stress reaction will be painful to walk on.

Secondly, tibial stress reactions are the quickest bone injuries to recover from. On multiple times I've been back to full running within 5 to 6 weeks, if you're about to take a break I would say go for it then follow this protocol:

runningwritings.com

The bone stress injury model: a new way to deal with stress fractures and stress reactions in runners

John Davis

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I have been on and off with shin splints and it being super sensitive in thid certian area for close to a year now but it has came and gone and I have been able to run through it for the most part. My physio had given me an excersise for shin splints where I pushed really hard on the area going up and down and that fixed them shortly but then I stopped doing it and It came back. I the past few weeks I have had a lingering pain in the side of my shin and it is very sensitive to touch even the lightest push on it brings pain and when I try and do the thing my physio told me to, even after I iced it to numb it, the pain is some of the worst I have ever expirenced. But I do not have pain when walking for the most part. I had a workout on Saturday that went great pain free, a long run on sunday that was pain free, and then a workout on tuesday that was pain free until the cool down where I had to stop for a bit because It hurt and then i kept running but didnt think too much of it because again I have expirenced stuff like this before. Then on wednesday I did a little easy run with some tempo and I could run but it was hurting bad and I stopped a couple times. Yesterday I had to cut my shakeout short due to the pain. I went out earlier to do a couple strides and It wasnt horrible but that might not say much. If I am racing I have to leave in 2 hours. Do you still think I should go for it?

Do you want a chance at a Season Best or do you want a senior XC season? You'll run fast next year.

If you are stupid, run.

If you are smart, you take the necessary break, cross train, comeback in August/sep n set a pb

Thank me later dude