aka Minimalist Running Week #4 in Review When I signed up for Barefoot Neill’s Virtual Race, I set a goal of running all 26.2 miles barefoot or in minimalist shoes. His rules were that we needed to complete the mileage over the course of two weeks, with at least 1 K on May 1st. I…
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Minimalist Running Week #3 in Review
Perhaps I should have titled this “I haven’t hurt myself… yet.” Last week was a mishmash of increasing speed and distance. For a little variety, I threw in a bit of completely barefoot running on the treadmill. Yeah, not exactly the definition of smart training. I ended up doing 19.2 miles in 5 runs and…
Minimalist Running Week #2 in review
Stats: 5 runs – 17.5 miles, longest run was 5 miles (I plan to run this afternoon, so I expect to go over 20 miles for the week. Woot!Edited: 20.5 miles for the week!) Thus far, the minimalist experience is going really well for me. Last week and the early part of this week were…
Hill training and barefoot running
No, not at the same time, although I did consider running my barefoot mile outside. Yesterday was the boys’ last day of camp up in the hilly part of our county. I decided I should take advantage of that. Where we live isn’t flat, but these were Serious.Hills. I ran a nice little mile warm…
The next Barefoot AngieB?
OK, probably not the next Barefoot Angie, but I did run another 1.1 miles barefoot today. It’s hot and grossly humid here again. I’m not sure how we skipped June, but I’m pretty sure we’ve landed squarely in August. Even our basement is hot because we aren’t getting the normal nightly lows. Have I mentioned…
A mile in no shoes
After walking home from Savor barefoot last weekend, I’ve been wanting to try a little bit of barefoot running. I have pretty tough feet, as I don’t wear shoes in the house and usually not in the yard. I also grew up spending a lot of time in the summer running around barefoot on my…