Running Press

• Total weekly miles

 1 mile.

• Number of running sessions

3.

• Total weekly barefoot miles

1 mile.

• Number of barefoot running sessions

3.

• Running terrain

Flat circuit outside my house on pavement.

• Ground surface of barefoot runs

A mix of smooth and rough pavement and road.

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

None.

• Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)

One dry, two wet.  Some puddles on wet runs.

• Condition of skin on feet — hotspots, blisters

Good.  All the dead skin I reported before seems to have gone, probably as a result of running with no shoes.  My skin is fine, the biggest change I’ve noticed with my feet over the last few weeks is that they seem to have become a lot read more

Again, no running this last week.  However, my toe has healed up remarkably well.  I was afraid I was going to lose a big chunk of skin, but after 2 weeks of using superglue around the edges of the cut and binding my toe up using mircopore tape, most of the skin that was hanging off immediately after the accident seems to have re-attached quite nicely.  I’ll be going out running again this read more

A quick one this week.  No running at all.

Why?  Well, while I was camping on holiday I managed to stub my toe.  “So what?” you might ask.  Well, at the time, I was barefoot, it was the middle of the night, and I stubbed it very hard against a very rough, very solid brick.  My big toe basically looked like it had exploded, there was a very thick flap of skin a couple of centimeters read more