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  1. Long races elude me

    And by long I mean anything a half-marathon and above. Every time I get up to about the ten mile mark with my running I get injured. (My latest is a 5th metatarsal stress fracture.) What exactly am I doing wrong? I'm dying to do a barefoot half or full marathon but I feel like it's a...

  2. Hostility

    Anyone else experience this while running? I was heading along a bike path -- well to the right and allowing for bicyclists' right-of-way -- when I heard someone behind me angrily grumble, "You gotta get some shoes, pal". I turned and saw a cyclist approaching. As he passed, he yelled, "You're...

  3. Transitioning

    So I had a long talk with an ultramarathoner friend of mine. I shared with him my frustrations with plantar fascitis and he suggested the following: 1. Barefooting on concrete will wreck your feet. 2. Barefooting past ten miles anywhere will wreck your feet. I know his opinion is just one of...

  4. Plantar fascitis

    I fear this is happening to my left foot. I've been so damn careful in terms of my running and I thought I'd just bruised my left heel somehow, but it hurts all the time and has been like this for weeks. I thought wearing my night splint would kick it, but it hasn't done anything. Once I'm up...

  5. Dirt shoes!

    This is my favorite thing when running barefoot: 1. Run on a dirt path. 2. See big mud puddle ahead. 3. Run towards big mud puddle. 4. Run through squishy mud puddle. 5. Continue onto dirt path. 6. Enjoy the sensation of the dry dirt sticking to your muddy feet. Voila! Dirt shoes!

  6. I reckon I'm done

    I started running (shod) in earnest in January 2015. I added too much, too soon, and had plantar fascitis and a stress fracture in my knee by April 2015. I read Born To Run in June and switched to barefoot immediately. I healed my PF by barefooting. I started running again in July. I ran my...

  7. I think it's happening AGAIN

    So after taking time off with a stress fracture in my right metatarsal, I started up again -- first walking a barefoot mile every day for a month before running. I've been adding miles extremely slowly -- no more than one mile per month -- and hoping for the best. But I'm starting to...

  8. Stress fracture

    Okay. This was unexpected. I think I have a stress fracture in my right foot. I've been barefooting since mid-July and have (I thought) been careful not to add too many miles at a time (no more than a half-mile per week) but I think I have hurt myself. It doesn't hurt as much while I'm...

  9. Liverpool football player could use some advice from this forum

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/04/liverpool-jordan-henderson-heel-injury I have a personal interest in this, as Jordan was brought up through the academy of my favorite soccer team, Sunderland AFC. I wish there were a way to get to him the message that what could help him is...

  10. Hills

    I find that running up and down steep-ish hills barefoot is tougher on my feet than I'd expected, in that I can feel my foot pads sort of shifting and sliding under me. Does that make sense? Any thoughts for adjusting my body when ascending/descending barefoot? Does anyone else experience this...

  11. Greenway 2020 10K

    Greenway 2020 10K By jjb Well, as promised, here's my humble dispatch: Yesterday I barefooted the Greenway 2020 10K in Los Angeles. It was a mostly paved, flat course, that ran along the LA "River" in support of turning the aforementioned waterway into 50 miles of wilder, more...

  12. Numbness

    Hey all, Total newbie, so I hope you'll forgive me if this question has been posed/answered on here somewhere -- but I didn't see it. Not-so-brief background: I started running in January 2015. I was using traditional (brand-new) running shoes, heel-striking, etc. By April I was up to 10.25...
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