Cannonball
Ex "Expert"
- Feb 25, 2009
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OK, so I won't complain about the rain considering we have been in the 80s most of the so called winter..... Frosh DD is on JV and Varsity and pitches both but our teams are not great.
One major difference that I never saw coming was wearing spikes everyday. Last summer DD was on a running kick everyday and a couple of weeks in developed a stress fracture on her tibia. Thought it was shin splints but ended up getting an MRI and it was a fracture.
Fast forward to this season and her other leg is starting to kill her the last several days. No running on pavement and just on the field. Coach told us she would get shin splints and fractures all the time in college and the metal cleats were the culprit along with not great running form which my DD is guilty of.
Anyway, she is working through it but it is the first time that she has her metal spikes on for 5-6 days straight and 2-3 hours a day.
Going to rotate from turf shoes to metals on and off and pitching in turf shoes tomorrow night in hopes it is a little easier on her. Who would have thunk it?
My dd had a problem and we changed her cleats a couple of times until she found the ones that she could wear. (Ringors) Her college coach went to that when he found out for the team shoes.