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These last 2 weeks have seen another trip to wales, this time a family holiday in Beddgelert.
It’s a beautiful place with immediate access to some great running and walking.
My Achilles is still not perfect so I’ve given the barefoot running a rest. That’s not all though, the general running mileage has been very low too; I’m quite happy to have a bit of rest and enjoy the read more
I have an entry for the Beachy Head Marathon in late October.
For some strange reason we decided to jog/walk the whole course on Sunday; walking up the hills and generally taking much more time than usual.
I wore my usual Inov-8 Roclites, they are comfy and quite like slippers now.
However, after about 10 miles, with plenty of walking, my feet were pretty sore, and sore in unusual read more
Of all the races I’ve done, the Snowdon Mountain Race is the one that has produced more post-run soreness than any other. DOMS, or delayed onset muscle soreness, is what makes the legs hurt for days after doing something that the muscles are not accustomed to doing. The quads (front thigh muscles) can be particularly badly affected after a bout of fast downhill running. This is because the read more
Firstly, I should say that no, I didn’t run up and down Snowdon barefoot.
However, it’s been quite an eventful week.
I managed a 3.5 mile barefoot run on Tuesday, and I must be quite confident because this was just 4 days before the mountain race (that’s certainly not something anyone wants to do with sore feet). My diary says my feet were sore after this run, but they obviously read more
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Always learning. Since starting to run barefoot, I think I’ve learnt more in a a year than in my previous nearly 20 years of running — well almost.
But, it’s not so much learning new things as reinforcing things we’ve been told or read about before. These reinforcements make one stand up and pay attention more than any book can.
For example, this week’s short barefoot run read more
This happened last year: a few weeks before the Snowdon Mountain Race I strained a calf muscle and had to swap running for cycling. This time it’s not so bad, but I’ve still had to stop running for a week; I don’t want to be running up Mt Snowdon with a calf strain.
So, this week has seen a great 45 mile cycle ride together with some shorter ones and only one short test run, which read more