The Ninth Photo

Don’t know how everyone else is standing up to marathon training, but my toes feel pretty mashed at the moment. I still have all ten toe nails, but four of them won’t see the summer out. Apparently black toenails just means you have blisters under the nail. Only one of them is currently causing any discomfort. Generally, they’re not painful either when running or afterwards, but they’re sure not sightly. Sam Murphy alludes to the causes of black toe nails in Marathon from start to finish “Shoes that are too tight, or too big, can cause this”. No shit Sherlock, but how helpful is it?

The body is taking longer to recover or maybe I’ve just forgotten as you get loads of bumps and scrapes as a kid and as a youth obsessed with the beautiful game. I’ve still got a swollen ankle from my very first blog run and a mark where I barked my shin on a stile with a ludicrous piece of poor judgement back in December when reccying the Leeds Country Way.

If there’s nothing worse than my current ills then I should have done what the Marathon Talk boys say is half the battle – got to the start line in reasonably good nick.