{"id":342,"date":"2009-11-16T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=342"},"modified":"2013-01-11T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:19:36","slug":"barefoot-running-achilles-tendon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/barefoot-running-achilles-tendon\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot running and the Achilles tendon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 7 days with 36 miles total and only one barefoot run of three quarters of a mile.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting down now for the coming marathon, I&#8217;ll not be running any more barefoot miles for a while to give the Achilles a chance to heal.<br \/>\nThe problem (I won&#8217;t use the word injury) with my Achilles tendon has become quite a feature of my barefoot running experiment. It&#8217;s never stopped my running \u2014 it&#8217;s not that bad \u2014 but it has meant that I have had to cut my barefoot miles. Of course the change in shoes hasn&#8217;t helped either. I am running all my miles in Inov-8 Roclites which are essentially an off-road shoe, with little cushioning and practically no structural support. I have kept using them, despite the Achilles issue, because they seem to be helping my longer term plantar fasciitis. It has become a bit of a balancing act, between the benefits of running in less cushioned, low heeled shoes, against the strain they inflict on my tendon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 7 days with 36 miles total and only one barefoot run of three quarters of a mile. Cutting down now for the coming marathon, I&#8217;ll not be running any more barefoot miles for a while to give the Achilles a chance to heal. The problem (I won&#8217;t use the word injury) with my Achilles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[11,53],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-achilles-tendon","tag-taper","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}