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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
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
I’m finding that the effects of barefoot running often only reveal themselves with time. It’s impact, in both senses of the word, is not as immediate as with conventional running. I’m used to something hurting if I’m doing it wrong and the pain or discomfort stopping when I cease to do it. Barefoot seems a lot more subtle, or at least slow to catch up.
I felt good after the hash
Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, without even knowing it.
Something sticks in your mind when you normally wouldn’t give it a second thought. You start looking into a world that you were vaguely aware of and then it all kicks off.
That’s how I feel about coming upon Barefoot Running. I was dimly aware of it, but didn’t think anything of
Most of us who run have a lot of time, energy and miles invested in our current state of fitness and we don’t really want to sacrifice any of that as we start to run barefoot. We know that we should start gradually, yet we don’t want to cut our mileage drastically and lose our investment.
Our feet have got used to the protection that running shoes offer and our running gait has evolved
This was not a totally barefoot run, I merely added a barefoot section to the end of my 7-mile road run this evening. With a mile to go, I ditched the shoes (Filas) and socks, and ran up the hill home. I have to say, the feet were a little sore, probably a hang-over from the longer run in aqua shoes just 2 days before — also ending in a short barefoot section.
Of more concern is a noticeable
