Festering Blister on My Big Toe
Posted by nathan on 22 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: my life., random.
[NOTE–No photographs are provided to spare you the gory image]
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I have been running a lot recently in preparation for a the Fort Wayne certified half marathon the end of September.
About a month ago I bought a new pair of shoes.
Then I went camping and I think broke (or at least sprained or bruised) a metatarsal (bone on the top of my foot).
About a week after this, I had a nagging arch pain, and I feared I was developing fallen arches, so I put arch supports in my new shoes (I probably mis-identified the broken metatarsal pain as falling arches, but I never put two-and-two together until now…)
In the past two weeks, I’ve been running five times a week, and five times a week I have a blister on my big toe.
It hurts!
So tonight is one of my days off, so I’ll let it heal, and then I am taking out the arch supports for Saturday’s 10-miler.
We’ll see how my big toe does.
It’s just a big pain in my BIG TOE.
1 Comment »
on 23 Aug 2008 at 6:17 am 1.
mike ash said …
did you go up a half a size with your running shoes over your regular shoes? i heard it helps with blisters – it has helped with mine!