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after a weeks rest following a pain developing in my right foot around the metatarsal area I felt fine  and went for a 10 miles easy run in my VFF’s. I kept to 9 min miles and was enjoying myself until mile 8 when the pain returned. Im pretty convinced that the barefoot running isnt the cause of this injury as its only in one foot and I’ve had this in the past whilst wearing trainers. read more

I havent run barefoot for just over a week now as I had a cross country race and thought the rest would do me good.As I ran the race we had to cross a stream , on the third lap I jumped into the stream and heard/felt a crunch in my right foot. after the race it had swollen quite badly so i presume ive strained it. Ive tried the vibration test to rule out a stress fracture and i can weight bear on read more

well it was 6 am , black and raining outside but i tied my new huaraches on and stepped outside. I did one mile a bit stiffly then stopped to retie my shoe, another mile more relaxed then stopped to retie my shoe …you get the drift. these things need to be on tight, they may feel uncomfortable when standing still but once you are running it all loosens up trust me. finaly got into a reasonable read more

I had a little pain in my right foot yesterday which seemed to have been caused by a bit of compression across the mid foot by my VVF’s, or possibly just a slight overuse strain. Today it was better but I didnt want to risk it so wore trail shoes to do 6.5 miles of cross country hills.

When I got back my Huaraches kit had arrived from america so i spent about an hour making them. After all read more

the alarm went off at 6am and it was black outside, I could hear the rain hammering against the window and the wind slamming the side of the house and really really did not want to go out for a run……I went.

My wife said “be carefull” as i opened the front door and was instantly sucked out into ice cold jets of water and buffeting winds. 6 miles at easy pace in VFF’s. my read more

10 mile run in VVF’s 8.11 min mile pace.

Today I thought “what the hell” and put on my horrible feeling VFF KSO’s for their first run. No gentle breaking in though a 10 mile run at around 8 min mile pace , it would either work or not, i put acouple of compeed plasters in my key pocket. Once I started running I suddenly lost the feeling of stiffness and restriction. At mile read more