Running With Perseverance

This week is ending better than I thought it would, but I definitely needed a toe truck a few days ago. That’s our family joke when somebody stubs a toe, and I did a number on my baby toe last Sunday. 😩

Oof!

Somebody Call A Toe Truck

As with most household injuries, it started with carelessness. I was dashing through the kitchen to grab the airpods I had forgotten for my workout. A kitchen stool I had left awry jumped out and attacked me, catching my baby toe as I ran by. 🙄 It hurt a bit in the moment 🤬 but as the day wore on it kept throbbing, and it was purple and swollen by the next morning. 🫣 I didn’t realize how bad it was until I tried to take Scooby for a walk. I grit my teeth and hobbled along—it took us 20 minutes to cover less than half a mile.

Luckily a few doses of meloxicam knocked the swelling down and I was able to run by Wednesday—although it still hurts a bit.

Weekly Run Down

The great toe tragedy struck on Sunday as I was getting ready to take a CVV ride.

It hadn’t realized the extent of the damage yet, so it didn’t stop me. This particular ride was focused on out of the saddle work, with a ladder of standing intervals you can see in the cadence and resistance graphs.

My injured toe didn’t interfere too much with my Coretober workouts, but I had to be careful getting into plank position.

I did all of this week’s classes, except I traded a Jess King pilates class for the dance cardio class.

By Wednesday I was ready to try lacing up my running shoes and glad my toe could tolerate them.

5.1 Scooby Miles

4.1 Scooby Miles

Temperatures were in the low- to mid-50s—my favorite running weather!

Friday I gave in to pop culture and took two of the classes from Peloton’s new Taylor Swift Life of A Showgirl collection.

I don’t take Ally’s classes very often but enjoyed this one.

Strength classes require more talking/coaching, but Katie let us focus on the music as much as possible.

I started Saturday with hot yoga, and then hopped on my treadmill for a sweaty run with Alex. All my “Scooby miles” are at a pretty easy pace, so I like to mix it up once in a while.

I’m sparing you the gory details!

A huge thank you to Deborah and Kim for hosting the Weekly Run Down link up.

Do you have any tricks for recovering from a stubbed toe? No way could I tolerate icing it!