- Bone spur on the base of my big left toe — which hasn’t actually been hurting much lately, just sore after hard things, long things and races
- Still really cut up, swollen, possibly broken or sprained pinky toe on my right foot from Pacific Grove — but can you sprain a toe?
- Bruised bone on my left heel from running on concrete the half-mile to transition at Santa Cruz (evidently, all that stuff about how if you run barefoot you naturally won’t land in such a way to hurt yourself didn’t work so much)
- General cuts from my shorts, sports bra and wetsuit
- Cuts from Tupac the Cat
- Carpal tunnel in my right wrist — unrelated to sports, for the most part
- Screwed up upper back — possibly unrelated to sports, likely related to having scoliosis for like 15 years
- My quads
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Kelly O'Mara 
Hah! I feel your pain (in some cases, quite literally!)
You know I think there is something about barefoot running but our ancestors didn’t do it on pavement, so give me gel absorption but otherwise, yow. All I got is two broken collarbones (well one broken collarbone, broken twice) but then I never pushed as hard as you (to be honest at 50 I think I’m grateful I can still push at all).
I’ve actually never broken a bone, so that’s something!