Monthly Archives: May 2010

Week 6

Pretty un-eventful week. I mainly stuck to the standard 3-4 mile loop around the park for each of my daily runs. We did track work on Saturday (1 mile time trail, that I completed in about 6:53 in Vibrams followed … Continue reading

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The Best Laid Plans…….

I’ve been delinquent in my postings the last couple of weeks.  This lingering heel pain has continued to be just that – lingering.  It became slightly worse and, as a result, I haven’t done any barefoot runs in the last … Continue reading

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One sore barefoot run

Again, just the one barefoot run this week.
Home from work and removing the shoes sooner than usual, leaving 4 miles on a mixed road surface; some nice and smooth, but quite a long section with coarse aggregate.
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Week Four: Humility

Total weekly miles: 7 miles.

Total BF miles: 4 miles.

Barefoot Sessions: 2

Terrain: Trails, trails, and more trails.

Still no minimalist shoes being used.

Weather: Warmer and sunnier.

Condition of Feet: TOFP ran out of control.

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Week 15, ending 5/15/10 total mileage: 26.5mi

Sunday: 5.5mi run with Max on bike.  Weather was good, sidewalks were a bit pebbly and twigs and bits of tree had blown down on the path. Feet were a little sensitive going over that, but good feeling overall. Recovery, … Continue reading

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A conglomerate of weeks

Week 2 of running some barefoot miles went well. Minimal soreness in my calves migrated gradually down towards my feet. Out of 22 total miles, 4.4 were barefoot. I keep wiggling my feet (not while I’m running) to see if … Continue reading

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Week Three: Strides

Total weekly miles: 26 miles.

Total BF miles: 7 miles

Barefoot Sessions: 5.

Terrain: Stayed mostly on trails this week. I did run about 1.5 miles on asphalt in the rain.

My barefoot miles are purely barefoot at this time.… Continue reading

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Week 5 – finishing the week strong

So I have to say that this week I cheated. I managed to get in a 4 mile barefoot run on Tuesday but I had a 5k race scheduled for saturday and I know that I’m not quite ready for a … Continue reading

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Upping the miles

Quite a high mileage week for me at the moment despite the falling over incident.

All seems to be going well. Just one barefoot run of 3.1 miles on the road in the middle of the week. Feet coped pretty … Continue reading

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Week 14, ending 5/8/10 total miles: 22.5

Started the week off with a nice sunny, albeit windy, 6 miler. Run was good, took it very slow for the first 3mi or so running with hubby and kids. Then when we went separate ways, I took off and … Continue reading

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