Sweet relief. The pain in my toe nail was bad enough that I visited a doc yesterday afternoon. It had a pretty good sized blister underneath the nail and he pulled it off and gave me antibiotics. The reason I have six really bad toe nails, according to him, is because of tight calves. They are not able to lift my feet off the ground entirely so I curl my toe nails under to lift off. The beating on the nails is exacerbated by downhill running which has caused the last two nail injuries (timp half and emigration last weekend).
He told me to give it about a day so I decided to not do a morning run and do the treadmill at lunch in case there were any issues. I wore my crocs on the treadmill for the first time to make sure the toes had space. The toe felt fine but the crocs were really getting hot and burning up so I hopped off at 3 miles and put on my old Brooks. Finished the workout in 59:52 for 10 miles with a 1.5 incline vs. the 1 I did last week. Hopefully the last treadmill run for 8 days or so.
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