Zero (current Ks) to 42 ( the meaning of life) in 12 (months)

Yeah, taking up mountain biking to avoid getting hurt seems like a great idea. Anyway, welcome, and I hope you'll like it here. With your kind of logic, I think you'll fit right in. arty:

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I've been BFRing now for two weeks - keeping it slow, small steps etc. Been running around the cross country track we have out the back of work - nice lunch break. Feet feel good and are starting to get used to a few rocks every now and again.I even managed my old calf stretch (front of foot on a step and lower heel as far as possible) without any pain - throughly enjoying getting back to the earth. But some of the things I've seen or have happened to mein thelast two weeks make wonder what I'm in for in the long run.

here's the newby list........

I've dogged broken glass - fairly common, I imagine and just one of those things.

I've had to give way to a Tiger Snake - again, that's what I get for living in the outer surburban fringe of Melbourne

Squished dog c$%#p between my toes - now that was gross, it was raining and I thought it was just mud!!

But, today was the worst. Jogging along, minding my own business, being attacked by flys - not nice little house flys, good old aussie blowies - and managed to swallow, not one, not two, but FIVE of the buggers. I don't know what was worse - swallowing the first one whislt gasping for airor the third onewhich didn't quite go downall the wayand when I coughed it up, sat in my mouth - a slime covered germ machine - ARGHHHHHH. I tried running with my mouth shut - no good. Couldn't even run with my teeth closed.

Maybe this is one of those keeping it real, back to our roots, running down prey thingies.

Please, let me know your most disgusting happening and make me feel better!!!

p.s. I've just worked out this blog thing and will add comments as I progress rather than start new blogs everytime.

I'll have to go back to five star this when I'm done.

The visual of you running with your teeth closed (rrrrrr) was too good. My most disgusting thing is not tiger snakes but giant leopard slugs. Not exactly a toothy menace but possibly the stickiest thing in existence. In the summer months they cruise the forest trails here and are easy to avoid for the most part but sometimes if you're really jamming and there is some concealing leaf litter... :sick:

You made my toes curl - Giant Leopard Slugs. All I can think of is landing on one and trying to get the guzz out from between my toes!!

Yeah, it's wierd stuff. Seems to be impervious to soap and anything else I can think of. That's not the only wierd thing about them either. :shock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtD5dxTcXm4

Week 3 begins - moving on now - built up to 20 mins (90 sec walk/60 sec run). I'm finding that if I bend my knees when I'm trying to walk, I end up jogging with a mid foot landing - just like my running stride, but at a slower pace.

My question to the experienced BFers out there - Is it ok to jog at a slow tempo as long as the form is ok? I find it easier than walking!!

Also 60secs at 180 BPM is really killing me. I can maintain it, but the last run session is a bitch. As I increase my run times, if I find it to hard to maintain the 180BPM, is it ok to drop back the cadence a bit, as long as I miantain form?

Been totally BF for the two weks so far and my feet are looking wonderful - what a great way to exfoliate!! I've also had problems with flat feet in the past, but when I get back from a run and look at the bottom of my feet, I have a really well formed dirty footprint on the bottom. Also, no glucosamine or magnisium tablets for two weeks and no knee pain.

Hey Fito, Ithink the unanimous answer to your question will be that it's OK to do what feels right for your body. I think that collectively the thing most everyone agrees on is that in listening closely to how we feel, we can navigate around many of the potential dangers of running.

It's great having an online community who supports BFR. I feel a little isolated here in Melbourne - hopefully as I run more, I'll meet more madmen. Thanks for the feedback - that's what I was thinking and it felt ok, so I'll persist with the jogging.

I forget Cabballo Blanko's rule #1!! Easy.

Week3, day 2 - Rather than focusing on running at 180bpm, I focused on bent knees, short, sharp foot placements and even focused on my head at times. I found that I was maintaining around the 165BPM mark, but felt good doing it. I also found out the when Iconcentrated on what my head was doing, I focused on it floating, not bounching and that flowed down my body to my legs and feet.

The other benefit was I was able to maintain my heart rate in my 60%-80% zone without a problem.

Feet are starting to toughen up - not so tender afterwards.