Like a total klutz, I stubbed my toe in the locker room this morning after swim practice, and now it’s black and blue. I figure it’s broken (second smallest toe). I understand that you don’t get a broken toe fixed, you just let it heal on its own. My question is: Can you keep training through it? It seemed OK on the trainer tonight, but I’m not sure whether to run on it tomorrow or not. I can’t take too long a layoff, because the heart of IMLP training is coming up soon.
Anyone else had a broken toe and kept training through it? Any secrets?
Like a total klutz, I stubbed my toe in the locker room this morning after swim practice, and now it’s black and blue. I figure it’s broken (second smallest toe). I understand that you don’t get a broken toe fixed, you just let it heal on its own. My question is: Can you keep training through it? It seemed OK on the trainer tonight, but I’m not sure whether to run on it tomorrow or not. I can’t take too long a layoff, because the heart of IMLP training is coming up soon.
Anyone else had a broken toe and kept training through it? Any secrets?
buddy taping is about your best bet. I’ve trained through broken big toes in martial arts a ton of times. As long as it’s just a hairline type of fracture, and you can stand the pain, shouldn’t be too bad.
I would lay off running for a week or two and just do a ton of cycling. This happened to me 6-weeks before Lake Placid and, though I could feel the toe, I was fine. I layed off heavy running for a couple of weeks and that helped.
Noooo - can’t lay off running for another week or two! I’m hating the trainer and it refuses to warm up for outdoor cycling here in Ottawa.
Took rroof’s advice and searched old posts. Jodi says she taped her broken toe and ran the next day. Now she’s a sensible girl isn’t she? So to make sure I don’t lose my mind on the trainer I may give it a try tomorrow. If that doesn’t work I guess it’s back on the trainer :>(
About 5 years ago, my wife broke her toe on a Saturday. She iced immediately, went to the doc and confirmed with x-rays, got it taped, and raced on Sunday.
After a couple of minutes, the bad pain sort of numbs. Of course sometimes bad things happen. It is definitely a risk/benefit thing.
I trained through this last year. I was able to run with just a little pain during the first few miles, then no pain after that (without numbness, etc.) for about a week, then it got more painful. You can also cut out the outside of the shoe near the pinky toe to give more room if necessary and you probably won’t notice it. Try it with an old pair of shoes first.
I broke my second toe in 2 places last year kicking a rock in the ocean. I taped it to the 3rd toe and after 3 days was fine running on it. Apparently I should have gotten mine fixed, because it is pretty crooked and from time to time still hurts a lot and swells up, but I just tape it for 3-4 days and it’s fine. I wasn’t running a lot or fast at the time because of a myriad of other injuries, but the few times I did a 3-4 mile run the taped toe was fine.
Weird. I broke two toes last night. I was getting off the bike trainer and was stretching. I must have forgot that the coffee table was right behind me and slammed my toes into it. Went to the doc today to get an xray, sure enough, I have two little fractures. Told me I could bike and swim in two days run, two weeks. Really glad to hear that you can go right back to training with these injuries most of the time.