The blisters I picked up on Tuesday’s barefoot run have settled down a lot. Thanks to the precautions I took yesterday, the roofs of the blisters have not come off, but they’re drained. There were three about the size of a 50 cent coin. In today’s run I barely noticed them. And only noticed them […]
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Yesterday I picked up some nasty blisters on the balls of my feet & big toe from running barefoot on the sidewalk. Today was a toss up whether I’d run or not. The general rule I follow with any injury is if it hurts more than 3 on a scale of 1-10 (10 being when
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After yesterday’s rant about shoes, I finally decided to go barefoot for a run & see what happened. I spend most of my time barefoot and run in minimalistic shoes, so I didn’t think it would be much of a transition. It felt great. I ran 4.18 km in the 30 minutes at an average
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Today I changed up my shoes again and went with the Under Armour Revenants that I ran my marathon in. I don’t run much in them now because they have a lot of cushioning and I don’t want to ingrain bad habits by using them too much. I like to vary my shoes, keeping my
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Today was the earliest I’ve run for a very long time. And on a Sunday too. I started at 7:30 am, to finish before breakfast with my wife’s family. Took Jamie in the pram with me too. Obviously I was slower than the last few days, but a lot faster than last time I took
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