{"id":1356,"date":"2010-06-13T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/index.php\/2010\/the-barefoot-buzz\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:15:46","slug":"the-barefoot-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/the-barefoot-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barefoot Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, without even knowing it.<\/p>\n

Something sticks in your mind when you normally wouldn’t give it a second thought. \u00a0You start looking into a world that you were vaguely aware of and then it all kicks off.<\/p>\n

That’s how I feel about coming upon Barefoot Running.\u00a0 I was dimly aware of it, but didn’t think anything of it until I completed a very long, cross-country challenge run.\u00a0 The niggles that developed in training left me questioning the two very different types of shoe I wear and how they were affecting my body.<\/p>\n

As soon as I searched for Barefoot Running on the Runner’s World website I came across a new post for volunteers for Graham’s book and here I am.<\/p>\n

Let me introduce myself, I am Dominic Weston, I am 43, and I run across the Mendip Hills in the south west of England.<\/p>\n

I took up running in my mid-30s, starting mainly with road running and moving more and more into off-road running on trails, footpaths and always over hills.\u00a0 I have run many half marathons, one full marathon and a mixture of cross-country distances, but for me the views, the terrain and being outdoors has always been far more important than racking up the miles.<\/p>\n

At the moment I am running between 15 and 30 miles a week and almost every Monday I go hashing with the Mendip Hills Hash House Harriers: http:\/\/www.mendiph4.org.uk\/default.aspx – the most sociable form of running I know, and you get to see a very wide variety of scenery and pubs.<\/p>\n

I am very aware that blog posts can run on forever, so I will end this one now, and if you want to know why I began to seriously look at Barefoot Running as the only serious direction for my future running, however long the transition will take, then read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00a0You start looking into a world that you were vaguely aware of and then it all kicks off. That’s how I feel about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6,151,129,56,113,152,10,45],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-barefoot","tag-cross-country","tag-hash","tag-marathon","tag-mendip","tag-niggles","tag-training","tag-transition","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}