{"id":1441,"date":"2010-09-07T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2010-09-07T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:10:00","slug":"the-bristol-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/the-bristol-half\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bristol Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/705_470x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/705_470x350-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/705_470x350-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/705_470x350.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday was wet and breezy and that was great.\u00a0 11,600 people ran and 900 lost their timing chips in the rain &#8211; including a friend of ours and he finished in 1:28, so I hope they can give him an official time from the photographs crossing the line.<\/p>\n<p>How did I do?\u00a0 Well I survived and with no injuries at all.\u00a0 13 miles on hard roads and cobbles in off road shoes and it was the fastest Half Marathon I have run, and I put it all down to barefoot\/forefoot running.<\/p>\n<p>I crossed the line at 1:32 and apart from some stiffness in my upper quads from the effort I put in, and some tightness in my lower calves, which I think is from so much \u2018bouncing\u2019 on the forefoot, I feel very well.<\/p>\n<p>Since changing my running style I believe I am running much faster and am able to adapt my running style and pace with my greater awareness and control.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a while before I am running anywhere like this distance barefoot &#8211; the tissues of my feet just need time to get used to it, but I am thrilled that the rest of my anatomy is beginning to thrive on the change of emphasis in this mode of locomotion.<\/p>\n<p>So will I shed my shoes for Bristol Half Marathon 2011?\u00a0 Let\u2019s see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was wet and breezy and that was great.\u00a0 11,600 people ran and 900 lost their timing chips in the rain &#8211; including a friend of ours and he finished in 1:28, so I hope they can give him an official time from the photographs crossing the line. How did I do?\u00a0 Well I survived [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,139,111,107,98,149,150],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-barefoot","tag-bristol","tag-cobbles","tag-forefoot","tag-half-marathon","tag-stiffness","tag-tightness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","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=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}