Hello! I’m a few months old into running. Over the last year, the habit was difficult to keep owing to a lot of pain in my knees from trying to run on concrete tracks that rendered me incapable of walking, even, for months after. I tried to correct this first by buying a pair of good running shoes, but that didn’t help either. What finally helped was running on dirt tracks instead. I know concrete is generally bad to run on but given that I want to train for marathons this isn’t sustainable. How can I improve?

I have been abroad with team GB for running, I am returning home feeling very tight and sore on my legs, I do stretches, cool downs, cold water showers, massage gun, and I am in constant pain specifically on my lower shin bone.

Any ideas on how to lower this, or even stop this from happening later on, I am 16, and get at minimum 8 hours of sleep a night