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Does anyone else get this?
I’m feeling that not only is the pad beneath my second and third toes toughening up, but also that the top edge seems to be slightly extending?
No? Thought not.
If anyone is just starting out on barefoot running I think it would be very interesting to both measure your feet and take a footprint of each foot before you start and then analyze the differences 15 weeks
I wanted to go for a longish run at lunchtime today – the weather was blowing, it had been raining but it was a good day for running. I got all my dry kit together, drove into work, the realise I left my shoes at home. So much for the long run.
Then I realised I could just go barefoot around the harbour and that would be fine. Except it was wet again and I didn’t want to do
Back at home, back at work and back to barefoot, but what to do about the cold weather?
I don’t want my feet to get frozen again, like they were in Berlin, but I haven’t managed to track down any cheap Aqua Shoes yet and the pavement looks very cold.
I don’t want to put on my cross-country shoes, as it’s not close enough to barefoot, so I opt for transition shoes. On
Three days after coming back from Berlin we’re off to Cornwall for a week – a long awaited break in a cottage on its own by a creek. Time to just read, relax, eat and drink.
So we went down to then quay to hire ocean kayaks but the sea was getting a little too rough for them to go it. Instead we go for a run and get lost for the first mile or so, run back, start again, set too
I’m back from Saudi but within a day we’re straight off on a short break in Berlin, to take in some sights and meet up with a local friend who’s visiting at the same time.
Compared to the Middle East October seems very cold, very wet but a welcome change. I wanted to get one run in while we are out here so I went out to the Tiergarten, the big park in the middle of the city,
It’s the end of a two and a half week trip and I am ready to go home. For the last five days I have been based back in Al Khobar near the Arabian Gulf on the eastern seaboard of Saudi Arabia. I’ve been staying in a very comfortable hotel, which shall remain nameless, and I would happily stay here again, except…
When I went into the gym on my first night back (to cycle,
