{"id":2812,"date":"2012-01-27T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:35:45","slug":"an-almost-barefoot-year-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/an-almost-barefoot-year-4\/","title":{"rendered":"An Almost Barefoot Year #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Somerset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2813\" src=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Somerset-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Somerset-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Somerset.png 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last post and back to the Bristol Half Marathon.\u00a0 Come 2011 I ran it in my Evo II minimalist shoes.\u00a0 I ran a minute slower than 2010 but came 100 places higher up the field \u2013 so a great result.<\/p>\n<p>However, my calves were incredibly stiff for the three days following the race.\u00a0 This is the one area where I find barefoot or minimalist running has a detrimental affect on my body \u2013 road running.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it is the hard surfaces but the monotony of action on the body \u2013 there is very little change in terrain, pace, camber or motion and my calves seem to take a bashing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lot of it is probably my lack of training on these surfaces, but this is not where I enjoy running most.\u00a0 For me it is the woods, fields and hills of Somerset where I find barefooted joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post and back to the Bristol Half Marathon.\u00a0 Come 2011 I ran it in my Evo II minimalist shoes.\u00a0 I ran a minute slower than 2010 but came 100 places higher up the field \u2013 so a great result. However, my calves were incredibly stiff for the three days following the race.\u00a0 This [&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":[139,372,196,393,56,392,158,176,144],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-bristol","tag-calf","tag-half","tag-joy","tag-marathon","tag-monotony","tag-road","tag-somerset","tag-stiff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}