Only two days to go!

Well there are just two days to go until my birthday and the start of my big challenge.
At the moment I´m on holiday in Ibiza, so I´ll be doing the first five days of running in Cala Llonga, Ibiza.
I´m sure it´s going to be hot work, but I´m planning to get up early and beat the heat. There´s always the motivation of a a nice glass of sangria and a cooling dip in the pool when I get back to keep me going.
I get back to England on June 30th and have a week off work, so plenty of chance to put in a few miles in the rain (no doubt) if my holiday puts me a little behind schedule.
So I´m hoping to do two or three miles here each day for the first five days.
I won´t be able to track my routes on MapMyRun here (because I won´t have a 3G connection on my phone), but I will plot my routes on Google Maps and hopefully get a fairly accurate distance. I´ll round it down, just to be on the safe side... I don´t want to be seen to be cheating at all, now, do I?

Shin troubles

So this is my first post for a little while as I´ve been resting for the past ten days or so to try to get rid of these pesky shin splints in preparation for the start of my challenge in a few days.
I´ve laid off the high-impact exercise and kept massaging my right shin - which was fairly painful for a few days after I last ran - with ice and taking ibruprofen to reduce the inflamation.
I was a little bit worried about it, but I´d better be prepared for an injury or two in the coming year.
I know that running every day isn´t necessarily good for the body, but hopefully the positive effects on my body will outweigh the negatives.
Anyway, I´m all kitted out with various running gear and now a shiny new shin support, so all ready and raring to go on Monday.
Who knows what kind of supports I´ll be sporting this time next year. Fingers crossed the joints and muscles strengthen up and hold out for me.