My name is Bev and I’m 42, (for a little while longer at least!)<\/p>\n
I started running 8.5 years ago, but took a year or so out within that time to have my son. He has just turned 6, so I guess I have been running consistently for 5.5 years.<\/p>\n
Currently I’m running about 40 miles per week. I’d like to do more, but life is a bit too busy for that at the moment. Most of my runs are on the road, but I do try to get off road at the weekend. Over the winter, I was running on the running track once a week.<\/p>\n
Since my pregnancy, I have suffered with lower back problems which impact on my running. For the last 2 years I have been suffering with retrocalcaneal bursitis in my right foot and, more recently, my left. Some running shoes clearly aggravate the problem – others make it more bearable. Last summer, I introduced some barefoot running into my schedule in an attempt to combat these problems. I didn’t get very far, but tried to run the last mile of every other run in bare feet. What I did notice was that barefoot running eliminated the pain in my heel, (ever present when running in shoes!) If it wasn’t for my appetite for running fast, I might’ve done more, but barefoot running does slow me down.<\/p>\n
Although I spend all of my time at home with bare feet, I haven’t managed much barefoot running over the (very long) winter! I managed a couple of laps of the running track on one or two occasions, but that’s all. Last week, however, I re-introduced barefoot running into my schedule.<\/p>\n
Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Bev and I’m 42, (for a little while longer at least!) I started running 8.5 years ago, but took a year or so out within that time to have my son. He has just turned 6, so I guess I have been running consistently for 5.5 years. Currently I’m running about 40 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}