{"id":1483,"date":"2010-09-12T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-09-17T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:47:09","slug":"my-first-cowpat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/my-first-cowpat\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Cowpat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A quiet week this week, to give myself some time to recover after the Half.<\/p>\n

My thighs were quite stiff for a lot of the week, but not in a bad way, they\u2019ve just done a lot of work.<\/p>\n

By Thursday I decided it was time to get out and about again and to a little barefoot loosening up, so I hit the Downs.\u00a0 Same circuit as usual – bright and very breezy and dry underfoot – that wouldn\u2019t be true of my 12th barefoot run…<\/p>\n

On Sunday I decided to squeeze in a second barefoot run for the week and took Millie out into the fields.\u00a0 A lovely sunny day, and to make the most of it I decided to extend our usual route and measure it using RunKeeper.<\/p>\n

There were great views from the top of the hill and then we daintily made our way across the grit and gravel of the Fosseway into a very lush grassy field that sloped quite steeply downhill.\u00a0 There weren\u2019t any cows at the top so we could build up a good head of steam on the descent. Then, I felt it.\u00a0 The firm but yielding squidge of a cowpat, gently encasing the first two toes of my right foot.<\/p>\n

I thought it might clean itself off in the long grass, but no.\u00a0 A little further on we came to a cattle trough and I did the necessary.\u00a0 The run turned out to be 1.75 miles, so further than the Downs and no ill effects.<\/p>\n

Week 13 Summary:<\/p>\n

Total Miles: 3.5 miles, grass, earth paths, pavement, tarmac, cowpat, dry and sometimes sunny.<\/p>\n

Total Barefoot: 3.15 miles as above.<\/p>\n

Transition: 0.35 miles, pavement, dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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