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Here’s another one of those interesting stories to encourage frustrated plantar fasciitis sufferers; there are treatments that are not aligned with conventional ideas.
Stumbled across your barefoot experiment via the Runner’s World forum. Great stuff!
Anyway, I have a good neutral running style and I’m a forefoot striker…
I picked up Plantar
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
Just over 3 months into my barefoot running experiment, and I am wondering about my experience so far.
After 29 barefoot runs there is no doubt in my mind that some of my ‘usual’ injuries: runner’s knee and plantar fasciitis, have been lessened.
After my layoff in June, I built my mileage back up quite quickly, and would normally have been at risk from knee problems.
Probably the 7th time I’ve done this and the worst conditions I can remember.
A bit of a last minute entry as a place became available only 2 days before the race.
Went better than expected, but it was hard work from half way onwards, the ground was rather heavy. Ran in Roclites with no problems.
The day after, my plantar fasciitis pain was less evident than of late, strange.
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
I remember doing this some years ago when I had an Achilles problem. Then it was quite bad: extremely tender, slightly swollen (adding to the pressure), highly audible crepitus when moving the foot or touching affected area.
Back then it was the fault of that pointless running shoe feature: the heel tab. I cut the tabs in all my shoes, even a pair that were fresh out of the box.
This time it’s
