An hour sounds extreme unless you are training for a marathon, try to mix it up with hill sprints and interval running, for example, sprinting 100 metres for every 400 metres.
snapcap wrote:
I run but I can't run that long because of shin splints, which is new to me and I'm not sure how to deal with them yet.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/18797 ... n-splints/
Do stretches before and after a run, another stretch you can do is stay in standing position and extend one leg out at a 90 degree angle, keep it straight, flex foot up and down repetitively thirty times. After that, do an inwards circle motion with your foot ten times and an outward motion ten times, repeat on the other leg afterwards.