{"id":2640,"date":"2011-11-17T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2011-11-17T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:02:16","slug":"week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Total weekly miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a03.5 miles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of running sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total weekly barefoot mile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2\u00a0miles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of barefoot running sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running terrain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First run was in my RunAmocs, I&#8217;m starting to get back to the sort of distances where I can run the routes I used to run in my trainers.\u00a0 So this one was pretty flat, one steep hill, on a mixture of pavement and grass.\u00a0 Second run was along a beach barefoot, so that was flat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ground surface of barefoot runs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mixture of pavement and grass\/mud for the first run and a sandy beach for the second.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One wearing my RunAmocs.\u00a0 It was just too cold to run barefoot, so I wore something on my feet for the first time in over 3 months\u00a0of running.\u00a0 Quite an odd feeling initially!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barefoot run was nice and warm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Condition of skin on feet \u2014 hotspots, blisters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good.\u00a0\u00a0The 2 mile run along the beach really cleaned up my feet, I have to\u00a0say!\u00a0 Got rid of a lot of dead skin in a far\u00a0more pleasant way than scrubbing with a pumice stone in the shower!\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting\/amusing comments received during the week: e.g. \u2018You\u2019ve got no shoes on!\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still no comments.\u00a0 Mind you, my barefoot run was on the beach, so I didn&#8217;t look at all out of place.\u00a0 My RunAmocs look enough like normal shoes\u00a0from a distance that\u00a0people probably didn&#8217;t notice\u00a0they weren&#8217;t trainers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treading on nasty things: e.g. glass, thorns, poo \u2014 how you dealt with any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No problems this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changes in your running style that you\u2019ve noticed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, running in shoes, even something as minimal as my RunAmocs (which barely qualify as shoes, they&#8217;re more leather bags with a very thin layer of rubber underfoot) does seem to have an impact on my running style.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not heel-striking or anything that drastic, but I&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;m scuffing my feet more, my foot strikes aren&#8217;t quite as clean as when I&#8217;m barefoot.\u00a0 Whether this is just a reaction to the slightly loose fit of the RunAmocs and it&#8217;s the soles of the shoes\u00a0that are hitting the ground slightly before my feet or whether it&#8217;s actually that the bit of rubber between my skin and the ground reduces groundfeel that much that I&#8217;ve started dragging my feet or something, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Definitely something to keep an eye on, as I think I&#8217;ll probably end up wearing my RunAmocs more\u00a0and more as the weather gets colder.\u00a0 Anything under about 10 degrees c outside, I&#8217;m\u00a0not going to risk barefooting it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, I think my foot strike has changed somewhat as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m landing less on my forefoot and more on my midfoot instead.\u00a0 This definitely isn&#8217;t deliberate on my part, it&#8217;s just something that feels comfortable and natural while I run.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll keep an eye on this as well, just to make sure I&#8217;m not lazily slipping back towards heel-striking and it&#8217;s a natural progression towards finding a gait and running style that feels comfortable and natural for me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Injuries incurred, or reduction of existing symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not an injury as such, but now I&#8217;m running more that 1.5 miles, I&#8217;m starting to notice\u00a0my calves are getting very tired towards the end of the run.\u00a0 Again, this is something I&#8217;ve read about, but haven&#8217;t run far enough in the past to notice for myself.\u00a0 It passes pretty quickly though, within a couple of hours I&#8217;m fresh again!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Useful tips and nuggets of info you\u2019ve picked up along the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0None really.\u00a0 The run along the beach was a good way to check my form by running in wet sand.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve already used that as a tip, so it doesn&#8217;t really count!<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ll be upping my mileage again.\u00a0 As I said, I&#8217;m starting to run on my old routes now.\u00a0 The shortest of these is just over 2 miles (about 2.3 miles actually), so I&#8217;ll try and do that 3 times this week.\u00a0 A big jump, but I think my feet are strong enough after 3 months of transitioning to take it.\u00a0 We shall see though, and if it feels like too much, then I&#8217;ll cut the mileage back down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total weekly miles \u00a03.5 miles. Number of running sessions 2. Total weekly barefoot mile 2\u00a0miles. Number of barefoot running sessions 1. Running terrain First run was in my RunAmocs, I&#8217;m starting to get back to the sort of distances where I can run the routes I used to run in my trainers.\u00a0 So this one [&hellip;]<\/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-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","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=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}