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Great 9-mile run today – the furthest I have been in transition shoes, as such. The only thing is, there’s not much shoe left.
Sooo, do I buy more beach shoes and accept that they will fall apart after six or seven runs?
That works out at about £1 a run, which isn’t that bad compared to £100 minimal shoes.
Well I know what I’m like with fads, so we’ll see…
Slightly damper run today – more in touch with the environment beneath my feet.
Oh dear, the beach shoes are slowly giving up.
What is more worrying is that they’re wearing out in the heels first – so much for all the forefoot running!
I trust you all had a good time over Christmas and New Year.
Obviously the snow kept the barefoot running down to zero as I wasn’t prepared to pull a ligament on the ice, even in aqua shoes.
As you can see from above they’re beginning to take a bashing, so I’m not sure how long they will last, but they are doing the job.
I’ve been out twice in them recently and run around
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
It’s the end of a two and a half week trip and I am ready to go home. For the last five days I have been based back in Al Khobar near the Arabian Gulf on the eastern seaboard of Saudi Arabia. I’ve been staying in a very comfortable hotel, which shall remain nameless, and I would happily stay here again, except…
When I went into the gym on my first night back (to cycle,
Well it’s hard to believe now that it’s been fifteen weeks since I first started to experiment with barefoot running. I’ve kept this blog as a volunteer to provide information for Graham Chapman’s research into a book on barefoot running. I’ll keep going with the blogging but the initial fifteen weeks is over, so how has it been?
Very, very surprising really.
It’s a such a strange
