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 could easily run about one mile barefoot.
Never felt sore calves during that proces, maybe I had been focussing on 'barefoot form' while during shod in the cold wintermonths.
But then my garden started asking for my time... From the beginning of spring, I spend hours after work in my garden, and I didn't find the time to run, unless I let go of some sleeping hours(which I needed too).
And now, back home from our holiday, I'm starting to run again...
And I keep wondering how to do it?
I ran barefoot about 100 yards on Monday evening, and 200 yards on Tuesday morning.
This evening I'm going to run 300 yards...
Unlike it was in early spring, when I was adding barefoot meters to my normal runs, my calves feel a bit sore now, probably because I haven't been running for a few months.
I guess it makes sense to transition like I'm doing now, by only running barefoot, but on the other hand... running only a couple of hundreds of yards feels so.... so nothing...
I never have had any running related injury, and I don't want to change that... but... I feel like I want to run more than this...
So I keep asking myself...
Should I really go on this way? Or should I try to do something 'C25K'-like, on bare foot? Or just run shod, and keep adding barefoot meters to my runs? Or run shod, and add a barefoot run every week?
I would like to take part in a charity-run in Octobre (6K), and when I only run barefoot, I won't make it that far by then I guess... And on the other hand, I'm quite sure that running only barefoot, and increasing the distance gradually is probably the best way.
And maybe... maybe the increase can be more rapidly after the first few weeks?
My most important goal has always been to run injury-free, and I'm not going to change that, so I guess... staying away from the TFTS-seduction is the way to do it...
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 could easily run about one mile barefoot.
Never felt sore calves during that proces, maybe I had been focussing on 'barefoot form' while during shod in the cold wintermonths.
But then my garden started asking for my time... From the beginning of spring, I spend hours after work in my garden, and I didn't find the time to run, unless I let go of some sleeping hours(which I needed too).
And now, back home from our holiday, I'm starting to run again...
And I keep wondering how to do it?
I ran barefoot about 100 yards on Monday evening, and 200 yards on Tuesday morning.
This evening I'm going to run 300 yards...
Unlike it was in early spring, when I was adding barefoot meters to my normal runs, my calves feel a bit sore now, probably because I haven't been running for a few months.
I guess it makes sense to transition like I'm doing now, by only running barefoot, but on the other hand... running only a couple of hundreds of yards feels so.... so nothing...
I never have had any running related injury, and I don't want to change that... but... I feel like I want to run more than this...
So I keep asking myself...
Should I really go on this way? Or should I try to do something 'C25K'-like, on bare foot? Or just run shod, and keep adding barefoot meters to my runs? Or run shod, and add a barefoot run every week?
I would like to take part in a charity-run in Octobre (6K), and when I only run barefoot, I won't make it that far by then I guess... And on the other hand, I'm quite sure that running only barefoot, and increasing the distance gradually is probably the best way.
And maybe... maybe the increase can be more rapidly after the first few weeks?
My most important goal has always been to run injury-free, and I'm not going to change that, so I guess... staying away from the TFTS-seduction is the way to do it...
