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A couple of gentle runs after Sunday’s long one.
The first one on the Monday started over the fields then on to the road for 2.8 miles barefoot, 5 miles total.
Tuesday 29th was just a 2 mile barefoot run from home. This was almost exactly the same as my first barefoot run just over 9 weeks ago. Then I finished with very sore feet indeed, and deep blisters on both feet. Today was no problem at read more
26th September
After a steady 6 mile road run on Thursday the next run was a 5k race at Hove Park near Brighton on Saturday.
Ran this pretty well (in Terrocs) and afterwards jogged around most of the 1.8k laps barefoot.
Maybe, once the skin on my feet has hardened a little more, I could do this whole race barefoot.
Barefoot run 18
Yesterday was another longish run of 13 miles on the road. I decided to run the last mile without shoes, but I got a nasty surprise. The road surface looked pretty rough, no loose stuff, but I know it was resurfaced not long ago with quite chunky aggregate. After taking off the shoes I found I could hardly run on it at all, just too painful; even walking was very uncomfortable. I read more
Felt very tired today so just an easy jog starting off over the fields. Once I hit the road I took the shoes off to see how the feet felt. They coped pretty well with a mile so I kept them off after turning back. I then reached a small lane with some quite steep downhill sections. It’s a very minor, single track road and although the surface is very smooth, the centre of the road has quite read more
A local undulating 10k road race, again run in Terrocs. After race ran home about 4 miles and then some lunch. After about 3hrs ran back to get car, slightly longer 5 miles. The last three quarters of a mile barefoot. After Friday’s longest ever barefoot run I was pleased to find the feet had recovered enough to manage a short distance unshod. I must admit the road did seem a little more painful read more
Here’s a slight diversion from the Runners World daily blog: