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I had my toenail removed on Wednesday - strict instructions not to walk for a week (back at work yesterday though) and next month's marathon is officially off.

It didn't really hurt, just feels super weird. I'm feeling slightly at a loss as to what to do now. I ran through the sweaty (40 degrees) summer so I could enjoy the nice temperature now, my friends are planning trail races in awesome places and I guess I'll... do some walking in a few weeks? Obviously for the next week I will take it easy, but what should I do after that so I don't go out of my mind with boredom?

Thank you. I've now read this and I think I've learnt lots from it. Mostly about actually sticking to paceing during training

I had my toenail removed on Wednesday - strict instructions not to walk for a week

Presumably this is to let it heal and reduce risk of infection? Even if it's not hurting a few weeks of following doctor's orders won't mean you suddenly forget how to run. Take it easy, get back into it steadily and enjoy your long trail runs through the crisp winter! Guilt trip your friends into joining you when it's -10 out because you missed the ones they are planning now!

@jb000 I think another key takeaway from the plan is high volume of running at goal marathon pace across the 18 weeks in the tempo runs. all the places I've seen hansons compared with other plans thats been the biggest plus-point they highlight.

Balance family & racing is hard

Yup. Always feel a bit guilty taking time to do what I want to do because it means putting more onto my gf (childcare etc). But it does mean I can't spend all afternoon lazing on the sofa and eating ice cream after a long morning training run so there are some benefits!

Another headphone q, I've tried both pairs recommended on this thread and they both work until I heat up and start sweating - at which point they back out of my ears and all the bass fucks off.

Anyone else find the same thing and found a pair of headphones that resolve it?

I know I won't forget how to run - I'm just bored at the prospect of being sedentary for too long! Good idea about the guilt trips, I'll get working on my persuasive techniques!

There's only one solution.

Just chatting headphones with a colleague who swears by these:

https://www.ultimateear.com/categories/music

You get moulds taken locally then they build the headphone to fit you.

His other advice was:

;)

Oh yeah I totally get that. Guessing you can't really do much until it's healed a bit? Swimming maybe once the skin is healed over?

I think two days before the marathon might be my favourite "training" day.

Done pretty much fuck all today other than lug a chest of drawers into a skip. 9 miles total running so far this week, basically making sure my hamstring recovers from a slight niggle, which I think it has.

5 degrees forecast on the start line in Frankfurt. Oof! Think I might be wearing gloves in a marathon for the first time in 10 years. Paris 2008 was a negative split so maybe that's a good omen. :)

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Nice to get sub 23 for run no.10 😃

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Race you to the summit in Littlebrough today. Fast 4.5m/950ft. Probably didn’t put my foot down enough but still spent the majority in zone 5.
39th/113 - decent enough for me! Snuck in a 6 min mile too.

Still struggling with a hot-spot under the ball of my right foot, specifically around the head of the second metatarsal. Googling it suggests Mortons Neuroma, but a) I've had that and it feels different and b) I had that nerve surgically removed. Now, the nerve did re-grow, so I'm not ruling it out, but I'm not convinced.

Anyone else had a problem with hot-spots?

Same in other shoes?

I'm only running in one pair of shoes at the moment, but had this exact same thing in Stockholm in the second half of the marathon in totally different shoes.

It's coincided with the weather getting colder, I'm wondering whether that's something to do with it.

~245km on these shoes now, so I don't think it's wear.

I have, was wearing old shoes that were tied a bit tight at the front and newer shoes that were possibly slightly tight.

A podiatrist friend reckoned it could be Morton's neuroma, but a scan at the hospital said it wasn't.

I think I rested for a bit and it was fine. Probably retired the tight shoes too

Interesting, could it be that with the weather turning I am lacing my shoes onto feet that are cold, and are then swelling as they warm, thus the lacing is then too tight?

@inchpincher muchos thanks for the donation!

Possibly
Have you got a second pair of feet to test this hypothesis?

Have you changed to thicker socks?

Just think, “what would @kl do?”. Sockless.

He'd run naked, smeared in woad or similar.