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The first time I ran a race barefoot.
As I have said before I had a lot of problems when running in trainers and eventually took the advice of a friend and physio and started training barefoot.
I initially started with very short runs no more than 400m and I also started the task of making my calf muscles stronger with plenty of calf raises with more and more weight as read more
The pure reason I am on here today, writing about Bare Foot Running, talking a “transitioning” “form” “lifting feet” etc is because my desire to run the marathon distance. Without this longing, I believe I would be running smaller distances, uninjured, and still in shoes. Last year around Christmas time I had decided to take on my first Marathon. Already being read more
Now that I am back tentatively running some miles barefoot, I thought I’d summarise the barefoot experiment so far.
Week 1 — Total miles – 7, barefoot miles – 2
Week 2 — Total miles – 14.2, barefoot miles – 1.5
Week 3 — Total miles – 27.4, barefoot miles – 1.2
Week 4 — Total miles – 38.8, barefoot miles – 1.2
Week read more
I’ve gone from Feast to Famine in the matter of 48 hours. After my breakthrough last week, I feel that my concentration has really fallen off. This Monday, I went out for a 1.25 mile run and right around the 1 mile mark I began to feel my old antagonist ITBS creeping back into my left knee area.
Now don’t take me for an idiot. I knew when switching last month to Barefoot running that read more
When all else fails, try running barefoot! Well not really. Since my completed marathon, I, like many other people, have suffered from a few nagging injuries. I’m not really sure what caused them, or if it had anything to do with my actual marathon, or the shoes I was wearing, or just plain stupidity on my part.
But the truth is, I’m injured for really the first time in my adult life. After a 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
