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If you have shin splints, and you stop running for six weeks, they will get
better.  However, you will have treated the symptom, and not the cause.  Ie.,
if you start running again after six weeks, and do exactly what you did before,
you will get shin splints again.  So, whether or not you stop running is a
matter of how you want to treat the symptoms;  if it hurts too muchs, stop.  If
you can't get them to start healing while continuing to run, stop.

But far more important is figuring out what caused them, and thereby figuring
out what you are going to do differently in the future.  I suggest some
combination of:
replace the worn out shoes, get a more appropriate kind of shoe, get a
corrective orthotic device, run on a softer surface, run less total miliage,
do less speed work, strengthen your shins, stretch your calf muscles and
achilles tendon, etc.  If you find out which of these does the trick, you
may be able to continue to run (by icing your shins before and after running)
while you heal.  If you don't find out your magic cure, you wont be able to
run anyway. 
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