Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on February 24th, 2008 in Injury, Training

Just over a week ago, my toenail was hanging on by the tiniest piece and I decided to bite the bullet and help it on its way.  With the toenail gone, I was finally able to resume running.

This past week wasn’t too bad.  I started with 3 consecutive days running 3 miles each.  I could tell on the 3rd day that my legs were tired so I rested on Thursday.  I couldn’t run Friday due to some family obligations, but I managed another 3 on Saturday and a 5-mile long run today.

My plan is continue with 3-4 mile daily runs for now.  I would love to hit 20 miles for the week which would the most I would have run for the entire year so far, but I’m just taking it one day at a time.

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Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on February 11th, 2008 in Injury

I had mentioned a few months ago that after the Chicago Marathon, I had gotten two black toenails on my two big toes.  The left one was worse than the right toenail.  I have been patiently waiting for them to fall off.

Well, just under 2 weeks ago, I bumped the left toenail and lo and behold, half the toenail detached.  I have been waiting for the other part to detach and its getting pretty close :-).  I’m a wimp when it comes to pain so I don’t want to pull the rest of the nail off nor do I want to run until it comes off.

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