Be careful here. Shin splints can lead to stress fractures. My DD, freshman year HS, wanted desperately to make the softball team that had exactly 1 open varsity spot. She's a tough cookie when it comes to pain. 2 weeks of tryouts/workouts inside a gymnasium during which she wasn't about to...
Obviously I didn't time em. All I can say is they didn't seem unusually long. I doubt it was over a minute.
During some downtime I mentioned to the UIC that my daughter's high school AC would walk from his first base post across the diamond, pickup the ball and wait for the pitcher to arrive...
At one of the Mass ASA State championships this year, the UIC was making sure the umpires were enforcing this - no plate visit between innings or it's a charged conference. Didn't affect me, so, I didn't question or investigate and assumed it to be the rule.
Makes me wonder if this is...