Ok, this is my annual in-a-row running post. I promise! My feet were largely out of commission (you'll see) so I've shown how that impacted my daily mile run along with pictures of what my toes were doing.
*Disclaimers*
If you hate feet–get the eff outta here quick!
My feet/toes look effed up
DON’T worry about the nails in some of these
In Dec 2023 there was lemon nail polish w/lime sparkles growing out–that is not some kind of fungus or old man toe situation
I think in Feb, my feet and toes were so sore and ugly, it was getting me down, so I painted the toenails to match the condition.
So the black and lavender/silver/purplish nails are painted that way
My 2nd GP informed me that it was wrong to paint them because doctors, especially the vascular specialist might get “confused”
I don’t know if that’s a helpful tip or just paternal-model medicine misogyny but I fussed on the survey anyway–my body my choice.
Also, if you’ve made it all the way to vascular specialist and toenail polish trips you up, you might wanna get some CE.
Socks leave remnants-they’re not cute.
Ever tried walking on wood floors where cats also live? There’s dust and hair, and that’s also not cute on the bottom of feet.
My toes gave me the heebie-jeebies.
I couldn’t cut my toenails
Pretend you never see any toe or foot hair–I’d be so embarrassed if you did!
At times my feet/toes were so swollen that the only shoes I could squeeze into at all were crocs.
So I couldn’t shave for fear of cutting myself
Pre:
Nothing happened. I'm serious. I wasn't in the cold. I didn't drop something on my foot or otherwise injure my toes. This just appeared out of the blue around Jan 11, 2024. At first, I thought my running shoes might be causing a blister.
What is it? I don’t know…
It gets worse...
I started running at least one mile per day, every single day in a row, January 2, 2014. And I never missed a day. You decide if I broke the chain in 2024 or not.
Because I could hardly walk to the bathroom my treadmill runs turned into run in place on the floor runs.
These pictures were taken daily mostly with Cool’s Motorola Edge 2021 and my Samsung Galaxy S9 phones. They aren’t edited (other than when the cameras do automatically) because things looked dramatic enough already. No saturation, or brightness, or lighting features were enhanced–this is how they looked.
This is not hair!
Feb 26, 2024
When my feet were getting new marks everywhere they had impacted the floor, I went to the elliptical instead of true running. Because my feet wouldn’t make impact, or “hit” the floor/treadmill. The grooves on the elliptical’s feet also made marks so I had to put running insoles on the elliptical and step on those (barefoot, bc I couldn't get shoes on for the swelling).
March 2024
April 2024
Every day I “cheated” on the mile by doing elliptical, I also posted a pic of my feet to justify that they were too fucked up to run on.
May 2024
The very first day that I was able to get back on the treadmill (even though my feet were still semi-effed) I did.
July 2024
August 2024
Sept 2024
Oct 2024
Dec 2024
I counted the elliptical as “running” the mile because I felt like that was the very most my feet would allow me to do.
I did the elliptical from 2/25/24 to 6/24/24 (which coincidentally is the day before my mom’s birthday to the day prior to my dad’s birthday). That’s 121 days of elliptical instead of running. And I did elliptical for 16 minutes because I figured that is the very slowest mile I could ever run.
4019 days since first run in a row (1/2/14) minus 121 days of fucked up toes ellipticaling = 3898 days of running 1 mile minimum in the last decade.
If elliptical doesn’t count then I’ve run at least 1 mile (not days in a row) for:
If it does count then I’ve done a minimum one mile run (or when my feet were blown up 16 minutes on the elliptical) every day in a row since Jan 2, 2014.
What do we think? Did I break the chain or not?
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