Whose Idea Was This Anyway???

Ok....I have good news and bad news...

The good news is I seem to have gotten the upper hand on the blisters.  Slicing the big one wide open, applying antiseptic regularly and soaking in salt water seemed to work.  I still applied band-aids and mole skin before today's run - just to be safe - but ended up with no trouble with them at all.  Yay!

However, that might be the only part of my lower body that doesn't hurt :(  My body is seriously telling me it does NOT like these longer distances.  Even my feet hurt...all the time...a dull kind of burning ache.  Kind of ironic that I was the one who wanted to do a half-marathon and I was the one who wanted to go to Vegas...Now I just can't wait for it to be over.  Only 3 more long runs...That's what I have to remember.  Surely I can make it through 3 more long runs...

That's all...

Wanna see my blisters?

Running sucks!

Ok...maybe I don't REALLY mean that...but this half-marathon training is killing me.  My body (uneven hips and all) is not built to endure long-distance runs it would appear....and it is letting me know it.

In addition to the back, glute, hamstring pain I'm dealing with while running double-digit km's I now have some lovely blisters... Blisters that I have photographed and will show to anyone willing to take a look.  Not sure my point in doing that...do I need to show that I'm tougher than them?  Maybe it is because people can't SEE the other pain I'm in...so this is a little bit of tangible proof that I'm suffering?  Who knows..  But whatever my reason - here's a little blister love for you too:

(Excuse the very old remnants of nail polish!  Hey...I'm an athlete in training! I don't have time for luxuries like pedicures!!)