Please!  Moleskin is a hiker thing.  Duct tape is an ultrarunner thing.  

 

This is bringing back good memories of DB draining blisters on my feet.  I think they sprayed 15 feet away.

 

This is what moleskin looks like.  You have to cut pieces to fit.

 

So you're calling me a hiker?

I guess I haven't tried to put anything on it (yet) because of its location. It seems anything I put there may just rub the edges of the toes and cause more blisters. But I don't know, i've never even heard of moleskin...so ill get some. This thing isn't going away.

I did run in those old injini socks today....after searching for an hour and finding them in the bottom of my running sock drawer. I don't know if it made a difference. I still say that particular pair is cottoney. And they're tall...I don't like tall socks. They were a gift from an ultra runner friend. So now I actually get what they're for.

Spaniel, I think you're talking about medical tape?

Tall socks leave obvious dirt marks when taken off. Well, if you run on the local coal pack anyway.

Is it something like KT tape?  (www.kttape.com)  My wife uses this stuff.

I think spaniel's talking about the stretchy ACE bandage-looking stuff that they wrap around your arm after you give blood (or have your thawed RBCs re-injected -- whatever).  It's a somewhat plasticky ACE bandage that's self-adhering.  Like:

I think spaniel's talking about the stretchy ACE bandage-looking stuff that they wrap around your arm after you give blood (or have your thawed RBCs re-injected -- whatever).  It's a somewhat plasticky ACE bandage that's self-adhering.  Like:

 

 

The bottom one looks right.  Tape is not stretch like this stuff.  Typically I use a piece of tape to hold the end down once I wrap.  If I get blisters they tend to be on the back of my heel.  I will cut a hole the size of the wound in a square of moleskin, and stick that around it.  Then I place a second skin piece on the wound and put a gauze pad over the whole thing, tape in place.  Then I wrap with the stuff above, around the ankle and under the arch a couple wraps to hold the whole thing in place.  Then tape the end down.  This has held up to anything, including a 5-day period of mountain hiking with regular sock changes pulling on it.

MTA:  Yes, exactly like the stuff they wrap the bandage in place with after drawing/giving blood, only the stuff I use for feet is wider.

The likely cause was taking a jarring step off of a curb.

 

  I can never leave my house now.

4+ weeks ago I had some glute tightness that lingered a couple of days and then got worse.  I added extra massage/stretching and kept stubbornly running.  After a week of fighting through my runs it was clear I was damaging my piriformis and glute medius and needed to stop.  The low-back, ITBs and hips were tender as well.

 

2 weeks of rest with no improvement convinced me to get a free injury screen at the nearby Physical Therapy office.  I was diagnosed with an SI Joint Upslip - which is basically where the pelvis has shifted up on one side causing a misalignment and strain of the surrounding muscles.  The likely cause was taking a jarring step off of a curb.

Damn this is eerily familiar.