*It’s weird. People are definitely staring at me.
*I ran .9 miles, after a 16 mile ride, and my feet are BEAT up.
*It’s nice to feel the road under your feet, but is it worth the after-effects?
I ran barefoot once. I was sitting in a dorm room with a classmate who was popping off about how fast he was. I said “let’s go, right now, as is. I’ll run barefoot, you run in your jeans.” We scrambled out the door, and quickly picked a turn-around point about 2.5 miles away. We were in the downtown Boston area. Turns out it’s not that hard to run in jeans, but after oh, say 0.9 miles on the pavement, barefoot running sucks. My feet looked just like yours. So, I ran barefoot once.
If you really want to try the barefoot thing, you really need to start out by strictly running on grass, a track, a treadmill, or another soft surface.
R U trying out for this year’s DARWIN AWARD?
After I had knee surgery, I ran barefoot for over 6 months on soccer fields, then slowly moved to pavement, but kept it very limited. I still run the soccer fields once a week, 3miles, then 10 sprints over 2 fields, really helps strengthen and makes you run as nature intended.
Just a ?, do you also bicycle barefoot, what type of cleats do you use?
Read, and absorbed. I still tend to agree with the Harvard review, and an article I read posted in Outside magazine. I think it will take some segueing, maybe a half mile once a week. I probably overdid it today, and may not be able to walk properly for a day or two, but it’s all part of the experience!
By your reply, I see you didn’t read my links. By your blisters and your run time, I see you didn’t read the suggestions I’ve seen in multiple spots of easing into it. I tried to help, but a fool returns to his folly like a dog to his vomit.
I have read the links and I understand exactly what they’re saying. With that being said, I still think that running barefoot once in a while to ensure that my form is on par with what it should be is beneficial in both the long run and the short run. Yes, I have blisters. I ran .45 miles because it felt good, and then turned around. I had a runner’s high since I stepped out of my house barefoot, and didn’t feel any negative feelings in my feet until something like .65 or .7 miles - when I felt like I kept stepping on the same sharp stone in the same place - what I later found out to be a blister. What’s my run time refer to?
One run…is me easing into it. I did one run. Albeit a bit longer than most people’s, but I’m not changing my preferred running footwear to none just from today.
Because you are dealing with religion here. The shoe companies have spoken and mother nature sucks. Now I admit that my love for running makes me become a zealot of fads now and then but I see real value in running barefoot every once in a while. It keeps your feet strong and is just plain fun.
