The time has come to either bite the bullet and buy more road shoes or give them up altogether and stay with the neutral off-roaders. The title to the post tells you what I have decided, but can I pull it off?
Today I will attempt my first ‘Park and Stride’ with off-road shoes, despite most of the route being on hard, manmade surfaces. Park and Stride was one of my strategies for building
Total weekly miles: 12
Running sessions: 4
Total barefoot miles: 2
BF sessions: 2
Surface: asphalt, grass, gravel
Runs in minimalist shoes: all
Weather: 89-95 with 75%-90% humidity
Feet condition: Calloused but not bad at all. I was able to wear flip flops this weekend.
Saw most my relatives this weekend for my cousin’s wedding. Good time. Every time I’d sit to talk with my aunts or
Total distance about 8.5 miles, over 2 runs, mainly off-road, hard grass footpaths, trails, some pavements, mainly sunny and dry
3.5 miles barefoot, 1 run, grass and pavements, sunny and dry, sore pads, limp and first big blisters.
Start slowly, for your own sake!
The blister from my 2nd barefoot run seems like it’s no longer filled with fluid and it might reattach – at least I’m not limping anymore.
I had a little achilles tendon tension very first thing on the day after but luckily that soon went. The same is true of a little tightness in the ankles.
But today is our first day at Glastonbury – great weather, very sunny, very dusty.
I
Hands up, I admit it, I ignored the warnings and was far too ambitious.
I thought I would run half my normal distance around The Downs but felt fine, so carried on for more than three miles. Around two miles in I could feel padding on my left foot that shouldn’t be there – a certain fluidity on the pad beneath the toes. It was the beginnings of a very big blister and soon was accompanied
Total weekly miles: 9
Total BF miles: 9
Barefoot Sessions: 3
Terrain: Trails and asphalt, a little bit of the gravel madness.
Weather: Rainy and cool week.
Condition of Feet: Morton’s Toe patches are flaring up again, even with the BF orthotic I have been using. Some aching also in the 4th and 5th metties.
Comments: First comment: ‘Det er tuft å springe barfot!’ ‘It is tough to