Ouch!!!

Finally came the inevitable hiccup...and this one nearly threatened to derail my entire training effort. This came in the somewhat unexpected form of a blister in an area which made running impossible for almost an entire week. It reared its head a couple of hours after my long run on Sunday the 11th of October. I made the mistake of running in cotton inners, a warning that I had read on numerous a, about not using any apparel made from cotton since it absorbs a lot of sweat and dries very slowly, thus rubbing and chafing the skin it is in contact with. I thought the blister would subside in a day or two and I could resume training, but that was not to be as any attempt to even walk caused it to hurt angrily. As it so happened I missed out on the entire week with the only high point of the week being the 18 km run on Sunday which happens to be my longest run yet.

Despite the frustration of momentarily losing my rhythm, it added an extra dimension to this endeavour of running in a marathon. After I had made impressive strides and come a long way from trundling a couple of kilometres to covering close to 20 kilometres in my long runs, it was difficult for me to digest the fact that something as low as a blister should throw a spanner in the works, but frustrate it did as all I could do was vegetate in my room and dread the pounds that I figured that I was adding back on. I should have known better and taken precautions like applying skin cream as a preventive measure....