Running long distances makes you stupid and uncoordinated, at least in the aftermath of the run itself. For instance, suffering from "The Stupids" towards the back end of a long race is a pretty well known phenomenon as your blood sugar drops and your brain starts to behave oddly. Indeed, hallucinations are not that uncommon.
This is all to try and explain away how I managed to kick a piece of furniture pretty hard with my middle toe a few hours after my twelve miler, even though this item (a cat scratching post) had been in the same spot since we moved into the house last August. I am at a loss to understand how this happened, except for The Stupids.
As some form of just recompense for matt posting pictures of his blistered hands, here is my toe later that same day:
Unlike matt's trapeze injuries, of course, this doesn't in any way make me look butch. It just hurts and makes me feel dumb.
Posted by Dunx at June 6, 2004 09:53 PM
I'm a new runner (started in December, still consider myself "new) and I'm running the Helvetia Half. I found your blog after a google search to find people's opinions of the course. Have you run it before? Is it terribly hilly and difficult?
Hi Sarah.
I haven't run the Helvetia course myself, although I know a few people who have... it has a reputation for being hilly and difficult (it's nicknamed "Hell-vetia") but I understand it picked that rep up from the first year it was run in 2002 when there were two tough hills in the course. It's more moderate now, though - there is still one real hill in the course, but it is in the first half of the distance and it's apparently more rolling after that.
The group I train with have been doing Terwilliger Boulevard as a bit of hill training - my understanding is that the Helvetia hill is less steep than Terwilliger.
You could do worse than do a hill run this weekend, though.
And I still think of myself as a new runner, too - I still have personal labels of "cyclist" and "fencer" even though I only ride twenty miles a week these days and haven't fenced for four years, but the label that says "runner" keeps falling off because of injury so I'm still new!
Good luck!
Ouch, that looks painful.
I've injured my toes a few times over the years, and it always seems a bit embarrassing, but that doesn't stop it hurting like hell, and it can take ages to heal properly too :(
It's been surprisingly quiescent (is that a suitable adjective for a toe?) - speed training this morning went really well to the point where I didn't notice the toe at all.
My wife, however, managed a spectacular kick of a door frame with her little toe a couple of weeks ago which went a very exciting shade of purple over an impressively large area, and which still hurts when she puts weight on the outside of her foot.
Foot injuries really can hurt for a long time.
what is toe-tapping anyways?