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Well, it’s no surprise that the soles of my feet have not been in intimate contact with Bristol’s cobbled streets of late. The freezing weather, and my aversion to clinging grit, means I’ve been out in the aqua shoes four times now.
I’ve also run my furthest distance barefoot to date – 4.5 miles – not bad after 6 months. It finally feels now like I can
All change on the training. We moved offices yesterday and are now located in the City Centre rather in leafy Clifton on the edge of the Downs, so I needed to find a new barefoot route. I mapped one out on the computer at 1.7 miles, which is the furthest I have done so far. It runs around the Harbour and Queen’s Square and at lunchtime I went out for the first time.
The strange thing
Sunday was wet and breezy and that was great. 11,600 people ran and 900 lost their timing chips in the rain – including a friend of ours and he finished in 1:28, so I hope they can give him an official time from the photographs crossing the line.
How did I do? Well I survived and with no injuries at all. 13 miles on hard roads and cobbles in off road shoes and it was the fastest
It’s a lovely sunny day and I’m working in the city centre so I decided to go down to Queen’s Square for my first barefoot run, and I’m very pleased I did.
There’s a whole range of terrain in this one square: grass, gritty paths, cobbles and smooth pavements. I started with walking (after I hid my shoes under a portaloo set up for the World Cup giant screen), and it took about ten
