{"id":2809,"date":"2012-01-27T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:34:11","slug":"an-almost-barefoot-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/an-almost-barefoot-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"An Almost Barefoot Year #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Inov-8-Bare-Grip-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2810\" src=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Inov-8-Bare-Grip-200-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Inov-8-Bare-Grip-200-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Inov-8-Bare-Grip-200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By May the Inov-8 off-road shoes I had run the 2010 Half Marathon in had well and truly worn out.\u00a0 My birthday was coming up in June and I was very excited as Inov-8 had made the move into truly minimal shoes.\u00a0 So a month later I received a pair of Bare-Grip 200s \u2013 an off-road shoe with no midsole, no cushioning and no height differential between heel and toe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Again, a great pair of shoes.\u00a0 There is no option but to run with your forefoot as you really don\u2019t want to slam your heel down on a rock or root in these.\u00a0 But they are fantastically grippy and responsive \u2013 the only problem is the lightweight mesh upper seems to be taking a bashing from not that much running, and tearing.<\/p>\n<p>Using these shoes marked my transition to minimal running full-time on road or cross-country, something that I have stuck with ever since.\u00a0 Any padding has now long gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been a slower transition to true barefoot running, as I find it is so dependent on temperature and weather \u2013 rain means picking up sharp grit, and cold means numbness which reduces feedback and increases chance of injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the summer I tried to get in one truly barefoot run each week, whether in town or cross-country, but that only lasted up until autumn.\u00a0 This year\u2019s project will be to increase my barefoot mileage and that may mean developing new tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By May the Inov-8 off-road shoes I had run the 2010 Half Marathon in had well and truly worn out.\u00a0 My birthday was coming up in June and I was very excited as Inov-8 had made the move into truly minimal shoes.\u00a0 So a month later I received a pair of Bare-Grip 200s \u2013 an [&hellip;]<\/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":[391,6,159,354,264],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-bare-grip","tag-barefoot","tag-inov-8","tag-minimal","tag-off-road","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}