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It’s really autumn here, the weather is exactly like you’d expect it to be in Belgium by the first week of november: lots of rain, and even a bit colder than average (today 9°C, feeling like 7°C because of the wind). (OK, for those Canadians that may sound hot as hell...)
It started raining in...
Four weeks of barefoot running, and feeling fine.
My run last Sunday was a bit more difficult.
The weather has been very hot for the past week, with temperatures of around 35C (95F?)... We really enjoyed our biologically filtered swimming pond, and I have been around in the garden barefoot the...
Transitioning slowly to barefoot running...
Until today, the running part went very well... OK, I'm only running about 1 km barefoot, but no sore calves, no blisters...
But...
I haven't been wearing shoes at home for the last few weeks, not inside, and not in the garden.
And our garden, well...
It is hard to resist the temptation to run farther than I have been told to do in the first days of my transition...
On Tuesday I ran about 300 m, and I would really, really have ran further, longer....
However, my calves still felt somewhat sore on Thursday, so I waited for my next run till...
So I wasn't running for over three months...
I was running rather consistently in the first months of this year, and trying to follow most of Ph. Maffetones advice. Meanwhile, I tried to make a transition to barefoot running by adding more barefoot-yards to each run.
During the last weeks, I...
A few months ago, I was running rather consistently, and was slowly transitioning to barefoot-running by adding some hundreds of yards of barefootrunning to each training...
And then the gardening season started, and I needed all my free time for my garden and my tomato-greenhouse... And after a...
I never understood what my husband did to the path toward the tool shed in our garden. Because the path was rather soggy after a period of rain, he decided to use (large pieces of) broken rooftiles to make it easier to use that path.
Did I say easy? Indeed, very easy to sprain you ankle while...
After my run on Wednesday, I took two days of rest because I didn't feel well.
I guess part of my feeling bad had to do with the tragic bus-accident in Switzerland, maybe some of you heard about it. The daughter of my niece was one of the victims…
Yesterday I still felt bad: I had a sore...
Slowly, I'm adding more barefoot-distance into my runs.
Last friday, I ran about 500 m barefoot, half of in on rough chip-seal, the rest on what felt as 'velvety-smooth' concrete.
The chip-seal was a bit difficult, and it was quite a relief to arrive on the concrete part.
Today, I run (shod) in...
I WANT TO RUN…
And I want to run NOW…
In the past, I’ve always run 3 times a week, or at most 7 days out of 14. I always took a day of rest between my runs, and I had the feeling I needed it.
But since I’m doing this maffetone-thing, 3 days a week doesn’t feel enough.
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Since I can run now without having to revert to walking intervals, I decided to do a first MAF-test yesterday.
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The Dutch and the Flemish speak the same languages, and nevertheless, we often use different words to say the same thing, and that can be rather confusing…
Just have a look at the words we use for different kinds of ‘moving by feet’.
In Belgium, the word we use to translate a walking pace is...
In her latest blogpost, moominmamma mentioned an article describing some criteria one should meet before even attempting the transition to barefoot running.
Lets have a look:
Ankle mobility – being able to dorsiflex 30 degrees: check
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In a recent blogpost, ChadisBarefoot asked which were the four best things someone did to improve running.
I’m afraid I can’t answer that question, since I have only started to run at age 44, and have ran on and off over the past few years.
I’m not even sure I will be able to find four 'best'...