A 10k road race on Sunday and a 5k road race on Monday, both run in Inov8 Terrocs.<\/p>\n
I find it interesting that there has been quite a lot of coverage about Born to Run in the national press and there is also quite a bit of talk about barefoot running amongst runners I know. However, at these races, I think I was the only person who ran them in anything other than road running shoes. I had planned to run the 5k in my aqua shoes, but the race was a point-to-point which necessitated a 3 mile warm-up to the start after parking at the finish. On reflection I think I could have used the aquas without any problems; better to err on the side of caution I suppose. The feet did get a good barefoot workout, both before and after the 5k because I only put my shoes on immediately before running and took them off straight after. There was plenty of gravelly and stoney areas to walk around and my previously well-protected feet coped much better with that than they would have just a few weeks ago. Again though, despite the interest barefooting, I saw nobody else wandering around unshod.<\/p>\n
Why is that runners will pay lots of money for therapists and fancy footwear in an attempt to cure their running related problem, and yet, when a cheap and natural answer is suggested few want to explore it? The american sports cable TV network ESPN, is currently running a simple poll for it’s website users, it simply asks: A recent theory in the running world proposes that running without shoes is better for you. Would you consider running barefoot? <\/em>Out of the 6618 answers given, 66% said ‘no’. How odd.<\/p>\n Can’t get out for a run today, but hopefully a mile or two barefoot tomorrow as part of a longer run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 10k road race on Sunday and a 5k road race on Monday, both run in Inov8 Terrocs. I find it interesting that there has been quite a lot of coverage about Born to Run in the national press and there is also quite a bit of talk about barefoot running amongst runners I know. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[39],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-race","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}