New week! I meant to catch up on the old thread, but I guess I'll do it here.
I healed up the blister on the end of my big toe! It took 3.5 days, so I missed 2 runs last week, one was a rest day. Oh well, I knew it would happen at some point, just trying to keep the misses to a minimum.
I discovered that wrapping my toe in duct tape keeps the blister from coming back. But the toenail on my other big toe is a little bruised. Nothing major, but if it goes more and more, I bet I'll lose it. Lost a few toenails through my life, it's ugly! But luckily, not that painful.
I also discovered that even though my running shoes are 1/2 size up, when you get up to the REALLY long runs, your feet swell even MORE! So the new shoes I have coming are another 1/2 size up! Hehe, so I'm running in 9.5's now and my reg shoes are usually 8.5, sometimes even 8's. But I'm glad I figured this out now, and with minimal damage and down time.
So I'm back to my regular schedule of running this week.
Oh also, on day 4 of absolutely NO sugar! I have also eliminated grains. I guess I'm sort of seeing how the Paleo diet works out for me. The last time I eliminated sugar, and not grains, I had a headache and fogginess and all for the first week. So far I have none of it! My energy level is VERY even. I do still crave sugar though, but more so because I love it, but not because I need the energy hit. So we'll see where this goes. If I only end up eliminating sugar, then great, but maybe I will be doing Paleo all the way for a while. Anyone have any experience with it?
