{"id":2645,"date":"2011-11-19T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2011-11-22T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:08:41","slug":"barefoot-running-survey-some-interesting-figures-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/barefoot-running-survey-some-interesting-figures-emerging\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Running Survey &#8211; some interesting figures emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who has completed the survey so far.<br \/>With over one hundred respondents recorded so far, we have the beginnings of some very useful data.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75% barefoot runners are male<\/li>\n<li>Average age is 35<\/li>\n<li>65% of the barefoot miles run are on the road<\/li>\n<li>nearly half of barefooters are running in the 8.30-10.00 min\/mile speed band<\/li>\n<li>most prevalent pre-existing injuries (before running barefoot), are to the knee<\/li>\n<li>60% of barefoot runners have had to cut back or moderate their barefoot running<\/li>\n<li>30% of barefoot runners say that barefoot running has caused injury (calf pain and top of foot pain being most prevalent)<\/li>\n<li>40% of barefoot runners say they now run faster, with 17% saying they have slowed<\/li>\n<li>86% of existing orthotic users say that they no longer use them since running barefoot or in minimalist shoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is plenty more data, and all of the above will have to be put into context by the other answers that have been given.<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried running barefoot or in minimalist shoes?<br \/>If you have, and can spare a few minutes, here&#8217;s <a title=\"barefoot running survey\" href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/surveys\/index.php?sid=25157\" target=\"_blank\">the barefoot running survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to everyone who has participated so far.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who has completed the survey so far.With over one hundred respondents recorded so far, we have the beginnings of some very useful data. Here&#8217;s a taste: 75% barefoot runners are male Average age is 35 65% of the barefoot miles run are on the road nearly half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[67,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","category-news","category-research","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}