Odd things you eventually figure out...

This is only slightly sports related, and it happened a long time ago. I was 7 months pregnant and had been doing aerobics for a couple of years. I noticed my left foot was really hurting me, especially my left toes. I suffered for about a month, and when I went to my doctor for my monthly check up, I was convinced this was from driving my standard car, with a clutch. I even began calling my condition "clutch toe."
The ob-gyn looked at my foot and told me I had athlete's foot! I had been hanging around in my sweaty athletic socks (cotton, of course back then) after coming home from the gym. Problem solved.

I've been dealing with a very painful hot foot issue for a year on my bike. Bought new pedals, bought 3 different pair of shoes, bought expensive insoles, moved my cleat a million different ways, and ridden hundreds of miles in pain......and now discover I have been biking and running with a stress fracture.......duh! It wasn't the pedals or shoes after all! What is it about cycling that make us enjoy suffering???? By the way, my doctor and podiatrist both did a double take at the "tiger stripes" on my foot from my Keens and their comment was "What's on your foot?"

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Originally Posted by kenyonchris

I was called (I was on the bike...on topic) to a house to investigate a noise at the complainants front door

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Totally off topic.... but THANK YOU KC for not writing/saying "complainTant."

That drives me absolutely nuts!

(And funny stories. :p)

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

I've been searching for at least two months for a reasonably inexpensive source of flat sheets of 5-6 mm neoprene to cut into pads for under my big toe joints in my running (and other) shoes, for my Morton's foot.

This morning I realized I have probably eight or nine flat sheets of 5-6 mm neoprene laying around the house in storage boxes, shoved in the backs of drawers, etc.

And so do you. Think about it....
in the 20th century we used to call them "mouse pads." :o

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I'm a dunce... I didn't see that you had put in a bunch of blank lines and then gave us the answer. I've been sitting here wracking my pea brain trying to figure out what I had laying around that is neoprene!

I keep ending up with chain grease all over me--not only on my right leg as normal, but on my left leg too. I couldn't figure out why until I was walking my bike across the street one day--I walk my bike on its right!