As a new contributor I suppose I’d better introduce myself… My name is Dai, I’m 30, and I’ve been running, on and off, for about 4 or 5\u00a0years.\u00a0 I’ve run a handful of 10kms, one half marathon and 2 Tough Guys (Google it,\u00a0it’s great fun!)\u00a0in between bouts of injury and laziness, so I’m pretty much a recreational runner and as such, my weekly mileage varies from anything from 0 to 15-20ish depending on whether I’m training for a race or laid off through injury or lack of will power!\u00a0 I usually run on a mixture of pavement and grass near to my home.<\/p>\n
I’m barefoot or in my socks most days when inside\u00a0(I work at home, so can chose my own footwear!) but, until recently, I wore mostly Doc Martens boots or sandals outside.\u00a0 I’ve since started walking more in my bare feet, carrying a pair of flip flops in case I need to\u00a0cover up.\u00a0 Running-wise, I’ve worn a wide variety of trainers over the years,\u00a0but the trainers I’ve\u00a0worn most recently were a pair of Brooks that were recommeded to me after a gait analysis in a\u00a0specialist running shop.\u00a0 I’ve yet to find a pair of trainers which didn’t give me blisters when running\u00a0more than 4 miles, one of the reasons I decided to try barefoot running instead.\u00a0 I’m pretty much a heel-strike runner going by how it feels and the wear on the soles of my trainers.<\/p>\n
Over the years I’ve picked up a number of injuries through running, mostly blisters, sprained ankles, back pain, knee pain and a nasty case of\u00a0achilles tendonitis after\u00a0running the Great North\u00a0Run\u00a0that had me out\u00a0for around 3 months.\u00a0\u00a0However, I’m mostly injury-free now.<\/p>\n
I decided to run barefoot , well, on a whim basically.\u00a0 I’d seen a couple of people running in VFFs and in bare feet locally over the last few months and just decided to have a go myself!\u00a0 I’ve actually been running barefoot (or trying to!) for a few weeks now, I’ll\u00a0explain how it’s been going below…\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a new contributor I suppose I’d better introduce myself… My name is Dai, I’m 30, and I’ve been running, on and off, for about 4 or 5\u00a0years.\u00a0 I’ve run a handful of 10kms, one half marathon and 2 Tough Guys (Google it,\u00a0it’s great fun!)\u00a0in between bouts of injury and laziness, so I’m pretty much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}