Right, then....
After having laid off running (and riding and other stuff) due to a combination of schedule, illness (stupid lingering cold) and general malaisiness, I finally went running for the first time in about a month. Of course, not only was it just a run, but it was the Race Through the Redwoods 10K (Felton, for us Bay Area folks). In the name of discretion, my original plan was to run up to 1/2 of it skin-to-ground, then put on my trail runners and complete the race...
...but it just felt so good, and I sort of "forgot" and did the entire 10K sans shoes. Outside of a little tenderness on the soles, the only pain I'm experiencing is due to banging my middle right toe on a root.
Mind you, up until today, the most I've ever run STG is maybe 3.2 miles or so, so I might be in for interesting times, come tomorrow morning. Mind you, I understand if that is the case it will be - as the philosopher Buffett once postulated - my own damn fault.
...but it felt great to be running again...so hopefully, I didn't break myself
Also - outside of attracting attention to myself (I was known as "the barefoot guy" to the rest of the runners), I got a refreshing new comment in regards to running barefoot...coming up behind me I heard a woman say "You can tell the barefoot runners because they have gorgeous calves, and I've been watching yours for a while."
RP
After having laid off running (and riding and other stuff) due to a combination of schedule, illness (stupid lingering cold) and general malaisiness, I finally went running for the first time in about a month. Of course, not only was it just a run, but it was the Race Through the Redwoods 10K (Felton, for us Bay Area folks). In the name of discretion, my original plan was to run up to 1/2 of it skin-to-ground, then put on my trail runners and complete the race...
...but it just felt so good, and I sort of "forgot" and did the entire 10K sans shoes. Outside of a little tenderness on the soles, the only pain I'm experiencing is due to banging my middle right toe on a root.
Mind you, up until today, the most I've ever run STG is maybe 3.2 miles or so, so I might be in for interesting times, come tomorrow morning. Mind you, I understand if that is the case it will be - as the philosopher Buffett once postulated - my own damn fault.
...but it felt great to be running again...so hopefully, I didn't break myself
Also - outside of attracting attention to myself (I was known as "the barefoot guy" to the rest of the runners), I got a refreshing new comment in regards to running barefoot...coming up behind me I heard a woman say "You can tell the barefoot runners because they have gorgeous calves, and I've been watching yours for a while."
RP
