Let's Tape That Foot!

Okay...if you're not a foot person, or if you're eating at the moment...this post may not be for you. A few of you have asked me how DO you actually tape the foot for my heel spur? Well, let me attempt to explain. It's an 'Ancient Podiatry Secret' so let's just keep it under wraps between you and me...;-)

1. Start with your foot flexed like so (caveat: don't blame the lighting or lack of fancy nails/skin on this segment. I'm impressed I actually took the photos!)

 2. Wrap 2 pieces of tape around the foot from this side to the other side (look how it wraps in the two above pics)

3. Next, add 4 strips of tape across the bottom of your foot, starting from right above your heel. It starts like above, and ends like below:

4. Finally, you take 2 pieces of tape like below. A shorter piece for the top of your foot, and a second piece to wrap around your foot like so:

5. Sorry, tried to make the last pic rotated correctly. Anyhoots, that's how I apply the shorter piece of tape to the longer piece. Then I wrap this around my foot, right below the base of my toes and front pad of my toe.
And this is how it looks:

I realize I don't have a top foot shot, but you can see where the tape goes around the top of my foot right? Also, on this day I put another piece of tape around my foot to seal up the four strip ends from the bottom of my foot. I often don't do that, but did today (I was going to be standing for 4 hrs for work)


So that's the foot scoop. And I've become a taping Master. I'm like a junkie at the podiatrist' office each week, gettin' my fix of tape, but I don't care. Whatever it takes to make the foot work baby!

Now, the big question is how am I going to do Vineman sans the tape? Don't think i can tape it because it'll just get thrashed in the 1.2 mile swim...any ideas???