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Well, it’s been a year since I started running with little or no shoes on. What have I learned? Well, I’ll start with some stats…
I never kept records of how far I ran when I wore ‘real’ trainers so I can’t give any figures, but believe me, this is far, farfurther than I’ve run before in a year, even though most of the mileage has come read more
22 miles this week. Not that much, but had to take a couple of days to recover from the festival!
4 sessions, 3 runs of about one hour and one of 45 minutes because I’d eaten a lot of crap that day (white bread, sweets and crisps) and felt awful on my run – headache, stomach cramps, just felt awful so I went home early!
About 6 miles.
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Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt read more
Ok week this week. Around about 30 miles this week, in 4 and a half hours of running. I would have done more but I was away at a music festival this weekend just gone, so not much opportunity for running there!
4 sessions, 2 runs of about one hour, one of 2 and a half hours, and one of 45 minutes when the heat got too much for me.
About 4 miles of running barefoot this week, but I was barefoot read more
Pretty decent week this week after recovering from my cold last week. About 5 hours of running, roughly 28 miles.
5 sessions, all runs of about one hour.
9.5 miles barefoot. Again, just running the last couple of miles home at the end of my runs barefoot.
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Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.
Pavement and road.
Lunas with leather laces for all my runs this week.
Rubbish week this week due to a bad cold. Grand total of 2.5 hours of running, roughly 15 miles.
2 runs, one of 90 mins, the other one hour.
About 2.5 miles barefoot this week. I took my sandals off for the last mile or so home for both of my runs.
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Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.
Pavement and road.
Lunas with leather laces for all my runs this week.
Warm and dry both read more
5 hours running, approximately 30 miles, plus 2 hours of swinging around in the forest at Go Ape this weekend, great fun!
3 runs, 1 long, 2 of one hour each
Again, none this week, for no real reason. I think part of it was being a bit nervous about returning to barefoot running before my soles had toughened up after my blister problems. But thinking about it, they never will unless I start read more
