{"id":1527,"date":"2010-09-21T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-09-25T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T07:15:49","slug":"barefoot-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/barefoot-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot In The City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All change on the training. We moved offices yesterday and are now located in the City Centre rather in leafy Clifton on the edge of the Downs, so I needed to find a new barefoot route.\u00a0 I mapped one out on the computer at 1.7 miles, which is the furthest I have done so far.\u00a0 It runs around the Harbour and Queen’s Square and at lunchtime I went out for the first time.<\/p>\n

The strange thing is that I felt so much more self consicous in the city centre.\u00a0 Up on the Downs there are so many runners and people just hanging out and playing games – plus it’s the centre of student land – but down in the city it’s obviously more business-like and I felt much more of an oddity.<\/p>\n

Some of the time I was preempting and deflecting their glances, other times I tried not to notice.\u00a0 I felt a curious mix of shame and defiance.<\/p>\n

But what was the territory like itself?\u00a0 A hell of a lot of cobbles.\u00a0 Some really good, others quite big with deep gaps between them – tricky, and my outer toes seemed to be catching the edge of them. It was great going back to Queen’s Square, where I ran my first barefoot run in June and the grit didn’t seem as bad – still not good.<\/p>\n

Anatomically it was all fine but with 100% hard surfaces for the route my feet did feel like they’d had a pounding – much more so than the Downs where 50% of the route is on packed earth path or grass.<\/p>\n

So once again, it\u2019s got to be softly, softly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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