1 Year Bare!
I turned 61 this year, but more importantly, today is my 1 year anniversary of birthday suit running... well, on my feet at least! I celebrated with a 5k this evening -- 3.2 miles, 50:38, just at 16 min/mile, 1 mile bare... barely running indeed!
Actually, most of the miles have been in huaraches or VFFs, but about 1/4 have been barefoot for the last 3 months - Cool! Mostly I have been on smooth concrete sidewalks and short chip seal sections. It feels good most of the time!
I have had no injuries. I got close once when I was not paying attention (can you believe it! just floatin' along bare...) and I hit a raised joint between 2 sections of sidewalk. Ones reflexes get very good, so my foot just sort of popped up from the impact and I landed a little harder on the other foot. I was very happy when I did not fall and got right back into stride with no pain! I figured I would pay for it later, but there were no affects I could notice. I was lucky that my toes were up and spread, so the impact was spread along the bony metatarsal ridge. Very cool. Lucky toes! Other than that I have had a couple of small blisters, but they were from the shoes/sandals.
My weight has gone down a little, but more importantly, my belts were on a middle hole and now are loose on the smallest hole... the doc is delighted!
OK, here are some stats... Total miles -- 269.4
............................Beginning Average Recent 20 runs
Pace Length 48 49.8 51.6
Pace/Minute 62 78.6 77.0
min/mile 18.7 16.4 16.0
Marathon Pace 8:18 7:08 6:58
Weight lbs 265 255
Waste " 48 43
Now that is Barely Running!
