Sunday, November 28, 2010

Today's Injury is Brought to You By The Letter B

B is for blister. B is for blood. Two B's are for blood blisters of which I have two. A matched set!! One for each foot.

I got my blood blisters from yesterday's beach run. It was our first beach run of Summer (even though it's still technically Spring) and the weather was glorious. I had decided to just run on the hard sand for the first run just to let my legs get used to sand running again. What I hadn't accounted for was the effect of the hard sand on my baby-soft soles.

We ran for about 4 k up the beach then turned around and ran back and my feet were already hurting by the turn-around point. But the only way to get back was to run so I just had to ignore what my feet were saying. And when I got back I saw these on my feet -



So this week has been a week of suffering (only a little) for my sport. I have a bruised toe-nail, a scabbed up elbow and two blood blisters (now lanced and drained). Who'd have thought running was so dangerous?!!
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11 comments:

  1. ajhNovember 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    Stay off motorcycles! We runners don't have the prettiest feet in town that is for sure. Better luck next week!

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  2. PahlaNovember 28, 2010 at 7:58 PM

    EW! That looks both gross and painful - what a trooper you are, finishing a run with that on your poor toe!

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  3. CucipataNovember 28, 2010 at 8:07 PM

    We could have done without the picture... :) Those things are painful...

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  4. LizNovember 29, 2010 at 3:33 AM

    Eek - hope it gets better soon. It's funny to think of you running on sand while we have our first snow of the winter - lucky you!

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  5. MarleneNovember 29, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    Ouch! I hope the blisters heal up.

    But I'm jealous of your beach running!! We have a trip to the Caribbean planned in January and I can't wait to hit the beach barefoot again.

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  6. Shellyrm ~ just a country runnerNovember 29, 2010 at 12:24 PM

    You are injury pore lately. Luckily its the quickly healed kind of injury! When to suck it up and keep running.

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  7. Pretend this is realNovember 29, 2010 at 3:40 PM

    B is also for bada$$. Way to get through the run.

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  8. AmyNovember 30, 2010 at 1:26 AM

    OUCH! When I saw the first lines of your blog I thought: I hope she didn't include a picture!
    Hope they feel better soon!

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  9. JohannNovember 30, 2010 at 5:18 AM

    Wow, you are collecting some serious training souvenirs. I'm sure my feet will look the same after a run on the sand. Take care, you have enough souvenirs now!

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  10. EmzNovember 30, 2010 at 1:20 PM

    HOLY CRAP.
    I've never had a BBlister. Yikes. looks painful.

    AMAZING you ran on that. You rock!

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  11. Amanda@runninghoodNovember 30, 2010 at 2:07 PM

    ouch ouch ouch...

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