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I wanted to go for a longish run at lunchtime today – the weather was blowing, it had been raining but it was a good day for running. I got all my dry kit together, drove into work, the realise I left my shoes at home. So much for the long run.
Then I realised I could just go barefoot around the harbour and that would be fine. Except it was wet again and I didn’t want to do
Back at home, back at work and back to barefoot, but what to do about the cold weather?
I don’t want my feet to get frozen again, like they were in Berlin, but I haven’t managed to track down any cheap Aqua Shoes yet and the pavement looks very cold.
I don’t want to put on my cross-country shoes, as it’s not close enough to barefoot, so I opt for transition shoes. On
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
A quiet week this week, to give myself some time to recover after the Half.
My thighs were quite stiff for a lot of the week, but not in a bad way, they’ve just done a lot of work.
By Thursday I decided it was time to get out and about again and to a little barefoot loosening up, so I hit the Downs. Same circuit as usual – bright and very breezy and dry underfoot – that wouldn’t
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
