Is it beginning to work?

I don't want to get my hopes up. So I'm going to try to avoid sounding optimistic or excited.

After months of believing that I was practically crippled with shin splints, after suffering from a mild stinging in the lower legs, I eventually got so frustrated that I decided to grab the bull by the horns, and actually go running, to see just how badly said condition affected me.

In retrospect I suppose it might have been a bit daft, but out of sheer desperation I decided to go for a run anyway, to see if I would run the mile, or be reduced to hobbling my way home.

I ran the mile.
I settled into a steady pace, running through what had turned into a rainstorm, at 00:30 in the morning through an unlit park, feeling like I was the only person in the world. Just me and the track - as corny or as cliched as it sounds, that's what I had to work with.

The run got harder very quickly, much earlier than I had expected it to, but I carried on through it. Even when, after running up the biggest/steepest hill on the circuit, when my legs were burning, my lower back was screaming for attention and my lungs felt like they were on fire, I carried on. I had to know, could I make the distance?

I ran over a mile - 1.09 miles to be exact, in 12 minutes. Over hilly terrain.
That's not bad, considering I haven't been running for a while.

But what about my shinsplints?
What about them?

I didn't feel any pain then, and I don't feel any more than the (very) slight background stinging that I felt before.
I won't articulate what this could mean in words, because I'm wary of bringing the entire thing crashing down around me.

Time to press on. I've got my ADSC to pass...