{"id":1687,"date":"2010-10-20T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T12:46:45","slug":"ich-bin-ein-barefooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/ich-bin-ein-barefooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ich Bin Ein Barefooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m back from Saudi but within a day we’re straight off on a short break in Berlin, to take in some sights and meet up with a local friend who’s visiting at the same time.<\/p>\n

Compared to the Middle East October seems very cold, very wet but a welcome change. \u00a0I wanted to get one run in while we are out here so I went out to the Tiergarten, the big park in the middle of the city, this morning.<\/p>\n

A few miles in, I take off my shoes to do some barefooting. \u00a0It’s going pretty well for a while, a bit gritty in places, cobbles in others, but fine. Except the ground is cold, very cold.<\/p>\n

After another mile or so I think the soles of my feet are going numb, which doesn’t bother me too much, but I’m lacking the feedback I need to judge how lightly I tread, what surfaces cause me trouble and what damage I might be doing to my feet. \u00a0Earlier than I intended I give up and put my shoes back on – something’s not right.<\/p>\n

Back at the hotel my feet have warmed up but the pads feel swollen – not blistered, but swollen.<\/p>\n

Naively I have never thought about how the cold may impact barefoot running, or require me to put on some kind of foot covering. \u00a0I’m thinking about it now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back from Saudi but within a day we’re straight off on a short break in Berlin, to take in some sights and meet up with a local friend who’s visiting at the same time. Compared to the Middle East October seems very cold, very wet but a welcome change. \u00a0I wanted to get one […]<\/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":[6,322,108,324,327,325,326,323],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-barefoot","tag-berlin","tag-blister","tag-cold","tag-damage","tag-pad","tag-swollen","tag-tiergarten","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}