Hello All,
Yesterday (Sunday 12th April) I completed the Brighton Marathon, in shoes.
Having carefully considered training up to run it barefoot I knew in my heart I didn't have enough time to get strong enough for a barefoot marathon, so the shoes went on. I am pleased that my feet survived with no injury what so ever, so perhaps the barefoot technique I learnt saved my feet from damage when running in shoes.
Anyway onto my point. I have immediately signed up to run in Brighton next year as I loved the experience and the charity I support offer places and I want to fund raise for them again. I am now thinking whether I can run it barefoot.
In September this year I have an Ironman triathlon (for the same charity) and am intending on running the marathon in that with shoes on. By the time I get to the marathon I will probably be walking as much as I will be running, so wearing shoes makes sense to me.
What I would like to do is combine barefoot marathon training with shod training ahead of the Ironman. Essentially my plan is to combine barefoot runs (starting with small distances and building up) with longer runs which will be shod. The idea will be to slowly increase the barefoot distance whilst still running shod for my Ironman training. I envisage that eventually I will be able to run some of the Ironman training distances barefoot, only putting on shoes for the very long runs.
Has anybody got any experience of combining both forms of training? Any advice or experiences would be graciously received?
Thanks
James
Yesterday (Sunday 12th April) I completed the Brighton Marathon, in shoes.
Having carefully considered training up to run it barefoot I knew in my heart I didn't have enough time to get strong enough for a barefoot marathon, so the shoes went on. I am pleased that my feet survived with no injury what so ever, so perhaps the barefoot technique I learnt saved my feet from damage when running in shoes.
Anyway onto my point. I have immediately signed up to run in Brighton next year as I loved the experience and the charity I support offer places and I want to fund raise for them again. I am now thinking whether I can run it barefoot.
In September this year I have an Ironman triathlon (for the same charity) and am intending on running the marathon in that with shoes on. By the time I get to the marathon I will probably be walking as much as I will be running, so wearing shoes makes sense to me.
What I would like to do is combine barefoot marathon training with shod training ahead of the Ironman. Essentially my plan is to combine barefoot runs (starting with small distances and building up) with longer runs which will be shod. The idea will be to slowly increase the barefoot distance whilst still running shod for my Ironman training. I envisage that eventually I will be able to run some of the Ironman training distances barefoot, only putting on shoes for the very long runs.
Has anybody got any experience of combining both forms of training? Any advice or experiences would be graciously received?
Thanks
James