The Barefoot Running Diaries

• Total weekly miles

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!

• Number of running sessions

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.

• Total weekly barefoot miles

About 4 miles of running barefoot this week, but I was barefoot read more

• Total weekly miles

Pretty decent week this week after recovering from my cold last week.  About 5 hours of running, roughly 28 miles.

• Number of running sessions

5 sessions, all runs of about one hour.

• Total weekly barefoot miles

9.5 miles barefoot.  Again, just running the last couple of miles home at the end of my runs barefoot.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

2

• Running terrain

Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

Pavement and road.

• Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.

Lunas with leather laces for all my runs this week.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

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• Total weekly miles

Rubbish week this week due to a bad cold.  Grand total of 2.5 hours of running, roughly 15 miles.

• Number of running sessions

2 runs, one of 90 mins, the other one hour.

• Total weekly barefoot miles

About 2.5 miles barefoot this week.  I took my sandals off for the last mile or so home for both of my runs.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

2

• Running terrain

Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

Pavement and road.

• Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.

Lunas with leather laces for all my runs this week.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

Warm and dry both read more

• Total weekly miles

5 hours running, approximately 30 miles, plus 2 hours of swinging around in the forest at Go Ape this weekend, great fun!

• Number of running sessions

3 runs, 1 long, 2 of one hour each

• Total weekly barefoot miles

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

• Total weekly miles

6 hours, 10 mins running, approximately 36 miles

• Number of running sessions

4 runs, 2 long, 2 of one hour each

• Total weekly barefoot mile

Again, none this week, partly because of a blister.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

0

• Running terrain

Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

N/A

• Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.

Both long runs in my lunas, one short one in my Evos.  Unfortunately, the new hemp laces in my lunas proved to be far too abrasive in my first long run this week.  I developed a pretty big friction burn read more

• Total weekly miles

4 hours of running, don’t know how far.

• Number of running sessions

An easy week of 4x1hour runs.

• Total weekly barefoot mile

None, I ran shod to give the blister I developed last week a chance to heal.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

0

• Running terrain

Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

N/A

• Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.

3 runs in my Vivobarefoot Evos, with socks.  I thought the added padding of socks would help the blister.  Last run in my Lunas.  I put the hemp laces on this time, as my leather ones read more