{"id":3146,"date":"2012-06-19T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2012-06-19T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T09:18:09","slug":"week-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/week-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Total weekly miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>35ish\u00a0miles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of running sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5\u00a0(3&#215;60 minutes, 1&#215;80 minutes, 1&#215;120 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total weekly barefoot mile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5ish\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>Mostly flat, on a mixture of pavement, dirt tracks and road.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ground surface of barefoot runs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mixture of pavement, grass and dirt tracks, again, I tried to stay on pavement as much as possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Runs in minimalist shoes, e.g. Five Fingers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lunas when not barefoot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather for barefoot runs (rain on road?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dry weather for my barefoot run this week.\u00a0 Generally, the weather has been better this week than last, although I did get caught out in a downpour once.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Condition of skin on feet \u2014 hotspots, blisters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Managed to develop a hotspot on\u00a0both feet just under my little toe after running on pavement for almost an hour in warm, dry conditions.\u00a0 Strange that I can run for almost 2 hours barefoot in the wet with no problems, yet half of that time in the dry left me with quite sore feet.\u00a0 After a few days, the hotspot on my left foot\u00a0developed into a blood blister about the size of a 10p piece during my long run (the one on my right foot went away after a couple of days).\u00a0 Funnily enough, I didn&#8217;t notice this until after my run.\u00a0 Popped it with a sterile needle and it&#8217;s now fine.\u00a0 No other problems!\u00a0 I kept my sandals on for running this week to try and help my feet heal, hence the low barefoot mileage.<\/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>A couple of nods from other runners again.\u00a0 I saw one other person running barefoot too.\u00a0 So there are at least 3 other barefoot runners in my area!<\/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>Trod on a glass shard while wearing my Lunas the other day. The glass actually went straight through my sandal, but only scratched my foot.\u00a0 I&#8217;m half glad I was wearing my sandals, because the first thought that goes through your mind in this situation is &#8220;what if I was barefoot?&#8221;\u00a0 It was\u00a0 a pretty nasty shard of glass, after all.\u00a0 But on the other hand, if I had been barefoot, I would have been paying more attention to where I was going, so I might have seen the glass and avoided it altogether.\u00a0 I guess I&#8217;ll\u00a0never know!\u00a0 As it was, I just popped the glass out of my sandal and carried on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changes in your running style that you\u2019ve noticed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It <em>feels<\/em> like I&#8217;m getting the hang of running at 144bpm with a quicker cadence now.\u00a0 My\u00a0cadence feels like it&#8217;s returning to what it was before I started the heart rate training.\u00a0 However, when I&#8217;ve mapped out my runs to find how far I&#8217;ve gone, I&#8217;m actually covering slightly less ground than I was with a crappy running style in the last couple of weeks.\u00a0 So my style is improving, but my distance is falling slightly.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what to do about this, so I&#8217;ve decided to more-or-less ignore distance over the next couple of weeks and focus on running for a set amount of time with good form.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why my distance this week is an estimate.\u00a0 I also started to find myself getting too hung up on how far I was going in the time I gave myself to run, could I go as far as last week in an hour, and all that kind of thing.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s actually counter productive when running to heart rate, you get anxious or excited about the distance, your heart rate rises, and you end up going slower to make up for it.\u00a0 That might be part of it too.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Injuries incurred, or reduction of existing symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calf is now fine after last week&#8217;s tweak.\u00a0 No other injuries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Useful tips and nuggets of info you\u2019ve picked up along the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Original Lunas suck in the mud.\u00a0 I actually fell over this week when I got caught out in the rain on a muddy trail.\u00a0 Luckily no-one was around to hear my language&#8230;\u00a0 The soles of the sandals have no tread on them at all, and if the mud gets between your foot and the sole (as it did to me)\u00a0then you&#8217;re finished, because there&#8217;s no traction between the sandal and the ground, and no traction between your foot and the sandal.\u00a0 I had to finish that section of the run barefoot, which wasn&#8217;t much better.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to work on my mud running technique&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total weekly miles 35ish\u00a0miles. 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