The Barefoot Running Diaries

• Total weekly miles

35ish miles.

• Number of running sessions

5 (3×60 minutes, 1×80 minutes, 1×120 minutes)

• Total weekly barefoot mile

5ish miles.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

1.

• Running terrain

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

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

Mixture of pavement, grass and dirt tracks, again, I tried to stay on pavement as much as possible.

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

Lunas when not barefoot.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

Dry weather for my barefoot run this week.  Generally, the weather has been better this week than last, although I did get caught read more

• Total weekly miles

27.6 miles.

• Number of running sessions

4 (3×60 minutes, 1×120 minutes)

• Total weekly barefoot mile

8 miles.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

1.

• Running terrain

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

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

Mixture of pavement, grass and dirt tracks, but I tried to stay on pavement as much as possible.  Need to keep this up to try and toughen my soles.

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

Lunas when not barefoot.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

All three runs in my Lunas were in gale force winds.  My barefoot run mixed heavy rain (for the whole 2 read more

• Total weekly miles

Second week of heart rate training – 30.3 miles in total.

• Number of running sessions

4 (2×60 minutes, 1×90 minute, 1x105minutes)

• Total weekly barefoot mile

8 miles.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

2.

• Running terrain

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

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

Mixtture of pavement, grass and dirt tracks.

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

Lunas when not barefoot.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

One run in pouring rain, others dry but cool.  I ended up having to take off my Lunas in the rain, the footbed just got too slippery and uncomfortable.  read more

Well, as a “well done” present to myself after the 10k last week, I made a couple of purchases…  First was entry into the Bristol half marathon in September.  Second was a heart rate monitor (a cheap one, only abou £20 from Amazon) and a book about heart rate training (Maffetone’s Big Book of Endurance Running).  After spending a couple of days reading, I decided to follow read more

Well, that was good fun!  Ran the Bristol 10k this morning with a time of 51 mins 11 secs in my Luna sandals.  That’s actually my best time since I set my PB about 5 years ago of 48mins something.  What makes me feel even better about it was that this came off a 6 week training plan, which I started 2 weeks after almost 3 months off training after my achilles injury.

I decided on my Lunas read more

• Total weekly miles

8.5 miles.

• Number of running sessions

2.

• Total weekly barefoot mile

0 miles.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

0.

• Running terrain

Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement and mud.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

N/A.

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

Lunas on my shorter run, RunAmocs on my long run.  I had to miss a session this week because of some foot pain.  I didn’t want to push through it, especially this close to the 10k.  I think the pain might have been from over-tightening my Luna laces.  Seems I have a bit to learn about tying them…  Might not read more