Tape Job Archives - Fixing Your Feet

Aug 1, 2013 · by John · In: blister care, Foot Care, Foot Care Products, Footcare Tagged: badwater, badwater blister queen, Bogies, Curves, death valley, Denise Jones, Dumitrescu, Extremes, feet, High Quality, Hurry, hypafix tape, Jobs, kinesio tape, leukotape, Mt. Whitney, Photo, Pretty Toes, Quality Tape, Right Foot, Tape Job, taping feet, Trail Hike, Wet Conditions

Over my years of taping feet, I have seen techniques improve to where pre-taping is more helpful then ever before. Often times, in the middle of a race, one cannot take the time necessary to do a high-quality tape job. Things may be rushed. The runner may be in a huge hurry to make a cut-off. The feet and skin may be wet. Conditions may be less than ideal - lightening, set-up, workable access/angle to the feet, supplies, etc. However, before a race, a hike, or run, there is more time to do a …

Jan 4, 2013 · by John · In: blister care Tagged: Adventure Racers, Athletic Tape, bad blisters, Band Aid, blister care, blister testers, blister volunteers, blisters, Blog, Email, friction, Hikers, Pho, Poor Success, Prevention, Raw Skin, Runners, Second Skin, Tape Job, Volunteers, Walkers, zinc oxide

For years blister care has been fairly standard. Many athletes use Second Skin over the top of a blister and then apply tape to hold that in place. Some still use Vaseline. Others will drain the blister and cover with a Band-Aid or athletic tape. And some will use zinc oxide under tape. All can work – but some work better than others. I’ve seen many runners who have tried one of the above with poor success. Sometimes the lack of blister patching success happens because of a poor tape job. …

Aug 15, 2012 · by John · In: Footwear, Health Tagged: Adventure Race, Bike Boxes, Bike Shoes, Bike Trek, Bikes, blisters, crocs, dirty feet, flip flops, Footwear, Foresight, Gearboxes, Gold Rush Adventure, gold rush adventure race, Multiple Times, Pods, Preventive Measure, Raft, Ropes, Small Stones, Ta4, Tape Job, Trek Bike, Twigs

Last week I worked the Gold Rush Adventure Race. We had 11 teams working their way through paddle, trek, bike, trek, bike, trek, ropes, raft, and finally a last trek. The full course was 285 miles, although some of the teams were short-coursed because of time. I started at TA2 (transition) where racers went from trek to bike, then TA3 – from bike to trek, TA4 – from trek to bike, and lastly, TA5 – from bike to trek. I saw the same teams, TA after TA. I did not count the number of racers on …

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