{"id":616,"date":"2010-04-06T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=616"},"modified":"2010-07-20T11:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T10:17:23","slug":"introduction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/introduction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am Nyal Davidsson and here is a little bit about myself. I am\u00a0 a 31 year old man living in Norway. I have been running an average of 20 to 25 miles a week for the last ten years. I have run on all kinds of terrain, as I have lived in several different cities here and in the United States. I prefer trails that are chock full of hills. I also enjoy running through interesting areas or landscapes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Like most people, I have gone barefoot a lot when I was a kid. When I was 18 or so, I used to hike barefoot at times and never really had any problems. It was almost as if my feet were made to be naked.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have had a tendency to develop Achilles tendonitis. Lately, I am suffering from tendonitis on another part of the leg. This type of injury concerns me a lot. I have never had any problems with shin splints, but have had sore knees a couple times. I have to be careful in choosing my shoes. I buy and use trail runners of several brands. I have used regular running shoes, but they have poor traction on snow and ice.<\/div>\n<p>I am a very slow runner. I have always just taken my time and have a high cadence and am light on my feet. I have noticed I tend not to heel strike very much and I wonder if this is partly the reason I have been largely injury free. My right foot splays to the right, as I am also a longboarder and kick with that leg. I have not been able to correct for this and when I have tried I end up hurt. So I keep the splay. The left foot is straight, though.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a decade of running behind me. I intend to run until two weeks after the day I die. I want to try barefoot out of mostly curiosity, but injury prevention sounds very nice too. I want to recapture that feeling I had hiking when I was 18. I wish I could forgo the shoes totally, but the winters here are too severe to run around in thin shoes. I have a long and exciting summer ahead of me!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Nyal Davidsson and here is a little bit about myself. I am\u00a0 a 31 year old man living in Norway. I have been running an average of 20 to 25 miles a week for the last ten years. I have run on all kinds of terrain, as I have lived in several different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}