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This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
I have decided to make a serious attempt at running a 10k road race in under an hour. This will require training and running as many races as I can next year. So that I can keep track of my training and list up coming events when I find out about them I have started an off shoot blog called Beat the Hour
Kev
This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
I hate being back at work as I don’t seem to have any energy left for the important things in life like blogging! I promise I will start doing the rounds of my blog pals again very soon and find out what you have all been up to 
On September the 3rd I am running the Great Scottish Run 10k this is the big one of the year for me. I had thought about getting sponsorship for this, however with the recent problems with my toe I have not had a chance to get organised and there was a chance that I wouldn’t be able to run anyway. However it is looking a lot more certain now. Maybe next year for the sponsorship.
Louise and I are going to play golf this evening, no don’t worry I haven’t started on the slippery slope to becoming a golf bore, it is indoor Crazy Golf
Kev
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After my cut toe and blisters I am able to walk normally again. I hope that by this time next week my feet will be healed enough that I will be able to get out for a few runs. On 3rd of September I am running the Great Scottish Run 10K which I think will be my last 10K of this year. I had hoped to run the 10K in under an hour but I think this will have to wait until next year. I must get more serious about training!
This week I will post the next chapter of Hb
I am once more battling with Linux on an old laptop to get wireless connection. I am trying Ubuntu at the moment but I think I will try SUSE again.
Kev
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I have not been blogging much the past week, writing or reading. The first thing has been that I am back at work after my holiday and I have been quite tired in the evenings. The second reason is that I have been having some toe problems.
On Saturday evening I noticed dark patch on the toe next to the little toe on my left foot, like an idiot I touched it and it started bleeding. I must have cut it at some point, I have no idea when or how. It is a small cut just at the left corner of the nail so it may just have been a sharp nail edge that caused it. It took ages for me to get it to stop bleeding not before I had dripped blood up and down the bathroom carpet. It was fine all of Sunday.
Monday morning being my first day back at work I really needed to have a shower in the morning, so it did and the toe started bleeding again and once again making my bathroom look like a scene from CSI !
On Tuesday morning my toe felt a little sore so I was starting to get worried about it being infected. I took another shower but this time I decided to protect the toe from the water, the only way I could think of doing this was to put a condom over my foot. This worked very well although I had to be careful not to slip, however my strategy to prevent my toe from bleeding came to nought as while I was drying myself I knocked the hairbrush from the shelf above the bathroom sink and it fell straight on to my toe and started it bleeding again!
I got it stopped again but decided to phone my Dr to get an appointment. Now I have never actually met my Dr as I have never been ill enough since I move to Glasgow. I was to be denied the chance as the receptionist said I would have to go to Accident & Emergency, which I did after work. The Dr there cleaned it and told me to keep it clean and if it got worse to come back.
Wednesday my toe was very sore but it had stopped bleeding, I was limping badly this was due to my toe now having blistered due to the rubbing of the plaster against my trainers while walking. I decided not to wear my trainers while I was at work on Thursday and Friday, it was weird walking around the office in my socks but at least I wasn’t in pain.
To add to this lunacy I borrowed a pair of sandals as I was going into town on Thursday evening, not wanting to commit the fashion faux-pa of wearing sock with sandals I went without. This worked in that my toe was okay and I could walk normally, however I got blisters on the soles of both my feet. I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!
So here we are at Friday I bet you are glad, if you have made it all this way. I have drained the blister on the toe so it won’t rub as much and and I am hoping it will be better tomorrow.
Kev
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I have uploaded this panorama of Islay & Jura to Flickr it is best view on the Large setting.
Kev
