A Milestone

Well, its official: I have lost my first toenail as a result of running. It seems that the toenail itself is attached to the skin underneath it. So when that skin starts peeling away, the toenail comes nicely along with it. My little guy valiantly hung on for a couple days, but it started to become obvious he wasn't going to make it. So last night I gave it a nice little tug (no pain involved since the skin was peeling away anyway), and off it went. My wife was not interested in seeing it at all, despite my best effort to show her. I'm interested to see how long it takes to grow a new toenail. Perhaps it won't ever come back? I really don't know. Anyway, pretty interesting from a purely scientific perspective.