I’ve been waiting over 4+ years for this to happen. I’d read about. Heard runners talk about it on countless occasions and always felt left out. Never having the experience I couldn’t add anything of substance to their conversations. I didn’t want to be the one to admit it had never happened to me. I thought if you were a “real” runner it would just happen because you were a real runner.

Yes friends, I finally have my first black toenail!!! I was beginning to think that I was immune from this running phenomenon. Maybe I just picked really good shoes and socks all this time. Funny thing is, this didn’t happen until I actually purchased a little larger shoe.

It happened during the Rock-n-Roll Las Vegas Marathon. That was the race I received the dual blisters of contrasting colors. As the weeks passed, I noticed that a toenail my left foot was a little redder than the others. After the Walt Disney World Marathon it was a lovely purple that I proudly displayed wearing sandals in the Bahamas. Now a couple of weeks later, it has finally faded to black. Now I have to admit that the whole toenail isn’t black. The bottom half has returned to its normal color but I’ve gone to the rule book and it counts.

Have you had your runner’s right of passage?

RMFR