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plateaued
plateaued Posts: 199 Member
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This weekend a toenail fell off ten years after I did something wrong while running the L.A. Marathon. My doctor said running damaged the roots and caused it to stop growing and not to worry about it. But 10 years? Is it a shoe issue?

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  • STrooper
    STrooper Posts: 659 Member
    Usually is a shoe issue where your toes get jammed into the toe box of the shoe.
  • CarsonRuns
    CarsonRuns Posts: 3,039 Member
    Yep. Go up a half size.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    If your feet can't fully splay due to the shoe size and/or wrong toebox for your foot, you also lose valuable stability and impact dispersing in addition to toenails.
  • plateaued
    plateaued Posts: 199 Member
    Thanks for the advice.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    CarsonRuns wrote: »
    Yep. Go up a half size.

    This.

    When I last got fitted at the running shoe store the guy warned me that shoes in the proper size might well seem too big at first, because you need more room in the toes than most people think feels right.

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