Bubbly Blisters

I’ve been having problems with blisters on my toes since last summer.   It started when I ramped up my mileage in preparation for Beach2Battleship Ironman.

I was wearing my Zoot Compression socks on my long runs, because I have varicose vein problems, and my left leg swells.  The joys of being a middle aged woman!   The Zoot socks are super dee duper for circulation support and also for recovery.      I tried all kinds of lubes and powders to avoid the blisters, to no avail.   The only thing that seems to keep the toe blisters at bay are injinji toe socks.   Those work great, but I really need the compression too.   Injinji makes compresssion toe socks, but they don’t really have enough compression for me.

I had recently come to the conculsion that my toe blisters are because the Zoot socks don’t have good wicking properties.  However, I wore compression sleeves along with good moisture wicking socks at White Lake Half race.  And look what happened…ouch.  (scroll down if you want to see the gross picture).  These blisters hurt from mile 3 onward during that race.  And this picture shows my GOOD foot.  The other side is much worse.

Funny, when I just look at my feet, I think they just look like blisters.  But now looking at this picture I am wondering if it is athlete’s foot?  It does not itch.   The blisters hurt when the first formed during the run, but not any more.   I have had bouts of athlete’s foot over the past year, which itches and burns like crazy and is oozy and much grosser than this.   But maybe there are different levels or types?  Maybe my toe blister problem has nothing to do with the Zoot socks.   I would love that answer, because they are awesome support for running on my  bad legs.

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I don’t want to force anybody to look at grossness…

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Keeping going…

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I know, ewwwww…