A 10k road race on Sunday and a 5k road race on Monday, both run in Inov8 Terrocs.
I find it interesting that there has been quite a lot of coverage about Born to Run in the national press and there is also quite a bit of talk about barefoot running amongst runners I know. However, at these races, I think I was the only person who ran them in anything other than road running shoes. I had planned read more
Returned from a few days away. Slightly scaled-down training week and more lessons learned, as detailed below. Also some comments about probably one of the most common running injuries — Runner’s Knee.
Friday 21 August
Just a short run today up a nice little hill near Middlesbrough called Roseberry Topping.
Unfortunately managed to twist an ankle on the way up. Rather painful at the time, but read more
A fun filled day today, starting with a gentle hilly jog to work of 7.6 miles. No barefooting, but lots of thinking about it. Mainly how much I was beginning to dislike running in clumpy road shoes.
I was thinking that I would quite fancy some road shoes similar to my Inov8s; they are just the sort of minimalist shoe I could do with for the longer distances on the road. Low and behold, when I get read more
Most of us who run have a lot of time, energy and miles invested in our current state of fitness and we don’t really want to sacrifice any of that as we start to run barefoot. We know that we should start gradually, yet we don’t want to cut our mileage drastically and lose our investment.
Our feet have got used to the protection that running shoes offer and our running gait has evolved read more
This was not a totally barefoot run, I merely added a barefoot section to the end of my 7-mile road run this evening. With a mile to go, I ditched the shoes (Filas) and socks, and ran up the hill home. I have to say, the feet were a little sore, probably a hang-over from the longer run in aqua shoes just 2 days before — also ending in a short barefoot section.
Of more concern is a noticeable read more
We had a prospective new member run with us at the club last week. He’s young, plays a bit of football and runs a bit of cross country. He was running in shoes that looked like the sort he might wear when playing football on grass or an artificial pitch; very little cushioning and no real support (and the necessary branding logo of course). After the run the usual questions were being asked read more