After today's 17 miler I came home with a big toenail hanging off and blood everywhere, so much so that my sock was stuck to my foot. On my other foot I have a vile blood blister on the bone at the base of my big toe, which is underneath a partially healed older blister so there's all broken skin around it. It really is gross. In fact, I'm going to inflict it's grossness upon you (sorry)...
As you can see, there is no way I would get these feet out in dainty shoes. Grim grim grim! Any other ladies have feet this disgusting?
Today's run, which caused all this damage, was the same as last Saturday's, except I started at the opposite end of the canal.
I drove along past Botany Bay and to a little car park which is at the disused 'Walton Summit' branch of the canal. The tow path from here takes you directly onto the main Leeds Liverpool Canal towpath. I ran out for 8.5 miles, which took me to just outside Haigh Hall, then turned around and ran back again.
I was doing really well to begin with but then at about five miles in, I started to tire a little and my pace got slower and slower. I managed to get a good pace in for my final mile though, in fact it was the best pace of all 17 miles, so it's good to know there was something left in the tank.
I still managed the whole thing in an 8.57 minute mile pace, which is 12 seconds per mile on average worse than last week but I have put it down to having a bit of a bad stomach which was gurgling throughout the run. The aim of the run is to be under 9 minute miling though so I still managed to achieve that, albeit it only slightly.
Total distance - 17 miles
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