ok so this one is for all you guys who spend most of your time on trails.
I am a newb when it comes to "real" trails barefoot (I have hundreds of barefoot road miles, but only about 8 total miles on trails that aren't "rails to trails" type things). Today I ran into a problem that I was unprepared to fix and honestly I'm not sure how I should have handled it.
About 300' into my run today I stubbed my toe on a tree root. Nothing broken, so that is good, but I managed to take off a piece of skin the size of a dime off the end of my toe. It bled real bad, and I basically drained my water bottle rinsing it off on the walk back to the car. I had no first aid kit with me so all I could do was wrap it as tight as possible in a bandanna I had with me (I could get it to cover the area well because of the location of the wound) and head for home.
Now I've heard from lots of people that they use super glue to seal up cuts, but what do you guys do on a situation where it isn't so much a cut as it is a larger area that got the skin taken off? does super glue still work in a situation like this?
I had planned a couple more trail runs later this week which are now in jeopardy depending on how this heals (I can put weight on it since the wound is on the end of my toe but I am hesitant to go trail running with an open wound or even barefoot with a bandaid on. I may need to resort to my trail gloves if I want to run, which is the lesser of two evils (the other being not running at all), so that's ok I guess. But, I was thinking I would need to put together a first aid kit for running trails and I am trying to figure out the exact loadout. Has anyone ever put together a "barefoot trail runner's first aid kit" list?
thanks for the help everyone!
I am a newb when it comes to "real" trails barefoot (I have hundreds of barefoot road miles, but only about 8 total miles on trails that aren't "rails to trails" type things). Today I ran into a problem that I was unprepared to fix and honestly I'm not sure how I should have handled it.
About 300' into my run today I stubbed my toe on a tree root. Nothing broken, so that is good, but I managed to take off a piece of skin the size of a dime off the end of my toe. It bled real bad, and I basically drained my water bottle rinsing it off on the walk back to the car. I had no first aid kit with me so all I could do was wrap it as tight as possible in a bandanna I had with me (I could get it to cover the area well because of the location of the wound) and head for home.
Now I've heard from lots of people that they use super glue to seal up cuts, but what do you guys do on a situation where it isn't so much a cut as it is a larger area that got the skin taken off? does super glue still work in a situation like this?
I had planned a couple more trail runs later this week which are now in jeopardy depending on how this heals (I can put weight on it since the wound is on the end of my toe but I am hesitant to go trail running with an open wound or even barefoot with a bandaid on. I may need to resort to my trail gloves if I want to run, which is the lesser of two evils (the other being not running at all), so that's ok I guess. But, I was thinking I would need to put together a first aid kit for running trails and I am trying to figure out the exact loadout. Has anyone ever put together a "barefoot trail runner's first aid kit" list?
thanks for the help everyone!