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I didn’t get around to doing a barefoot run on the weekend so I went out this lunchtime. The same idea as last time – half with shoes, half barefoot, but rather than starting in Vivos I started in my normal off-road shoes. I’m hoping this will protect my heel a little.
By the way, the old skin from the blister on my left forefoot is finally starting to come away, which seems to
The 9-mile run back last night was very hard work – not because of the wind and rain but just because I was tired by the end of the day. My knees seemed to ache alternately and randomly – so I can’t detect a pattern there yet.
I had hoped to have another barefoot run this week, but it doesn’t look like I’ll have the time – maybe at the weekend.
It dawned on me this morning that my blister didn’t come from the blaster but must have arisen on Wednesday’s barefoot run, and either I hadn’t noticed it or else the blaster finally brought it out.
What’s odd is that it is on the opposite end of the opposite foot to the first blister.
Week 4 Review:
Total miles: 8.0, cross-country, grass, earth & stone paths, tarmac, dry & wet
Total
Back to slapping around The Downs. This week I’m being more sensible – I’m running around only one half of The Downs and only half of that fully barefoot. I start in my Vivos and then half way around take them off. It’s rained this morning and the wet grass and tarmac feel lovely. Again, it feels like my thighs are doing a lot more work than normal.
As I approach the end I
For this next barefoot run I wanted to concentrate on the anatomical, not abrasive, effects of barefoot running on my body, so I decided to wear my Vivo Barefoots to protects my soles, but stick with the distance of once around the Downs – just over 3 miles.
Now this might seem like it’s pushing it for a beginner and in all truth, it might be. But my feeling is that from all the hilly
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