Toe Update

Attention:  If you are eating, please do not read further.*

Toe update! 

Kyle has been begging to rip my toenail off since it first started to come up off the nail bed.  I've jokingly been telling him that maybe I'd let him do it for his birthday.  Well two weekends ago, I managed to get the nail caught TWICE on random items within a 15 minute span, and each time almost reduced me to tears.  Ok, each time reduced me to 'a' tear.  At least.

Finally it was decided:  time to do some more toe nail maintenance.  I almost gave Kyle the green light, until I realized that the nail is 100% attached to the toe on the left hand side.  Hence the extreme pain each time I got the nail caught on something.  I decided it was time to trim it down as far as possible.  It took some hard work and maneuevering, but I did my best.  I broke in to a sweat in the process.  Kyle was hovered over my foot with a look of glee in his eye.  Hopefully this keeps it out of the way until the turd just falls off.

But the saga continues....... I just looked a bit closer at my left big toenail, only to realize that it's not attached either.  Gah.  At least this one appears to have heeded my advice of waiting until sandal season is over.  Right toe nail?  You've officially  been put on notice.  Bitch.  Now I must debate wheter to perform surgery on this one before the half next weekend.  EEP!

*I got a few "OMG I just barfed up my cheerios!" the last time I posted about my toenails, so I thought a disclaimer would be nice this time around.
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Last long run today after work.  I was supposed to do it tomorrow morning but the weather is supposed to be similar to Wednesday morning.  Yes, it was SO BAD that I'd rather run today at NOON than tomorrow a.m.  Barf.

Toe Nail Surgery + Two A Day

On my short run Tuesday I had some major pain in my toe.  Remember my black toe nails from Fargo?  Well, the right one has come partially detached from the nail bed.  Because it wasn't hurting, and slightly for vanity reasons, I kept it as is.  Not to mention that it's still very attached on the left side of the nail bed.  Hmm.  However, recently it's started to hurt when I wear shoes, but not my running shoes.  Fine.  But when it started to hurt while I was running ?  Oh hell no.

Wednesday night I had a 4x800 m interval workout to tackle, but first, toe nail surgery.  I've only had pinky nails fall off from running, and that's no big to-do.  In high school I had a big toe nail fall off, but the whole thing fell off at the same time, so there was no need for intervention.  I got to work, slowly bending the right side of the nail off the nail bed.  After some somewhat painful manuevering, I was able to peel it up enough to fit the monster toenail clippers under the nail.  I trimmed away at the base of the nail, as its half moon natural shape was poking the heck out of my sensitive nail bed.  Next up, the right hand corner that was also causing me pain.  All in all, I ended up removing about 1/6 of my toenail, and I seem to be pain free.  Maybe it'll even grow out like that and I won't have any future problems!

Post surgery I went out for a killer 4x800 m workout and posted some fab-o splits after a 2 mile warm up.

3:26
3:28

3:29

3:29

I finished with a 1/2 mile cooldown because I was beat and starving.

And 10 1/2 hours later I was out the door running again.  Silly me thought I had Thursday night to get in my run, but Kyle instructed me otherwise.  No biggie, back to back runs ensure that I take my recovery run at a recovery pace.  The bike trails were flooded and crazy muddy, so I ran through mud and through grass, and then when the path was flooded had to turn around and come home, and then do a 1 mile out and back from my place to get the miles in.  Oh and my garmin died halfway through.  What a run!