Wow, haven't started a mileage thread for a while.
Sunday around noon
3.5 miles, shorter Mississippi River bridge circuit--Marshall-Franklin Bridges. Very humid but the second half felt better than the first. This is a great distance for me. I can push the pace just slightly the whole way. Not a true tempo run, but maybe it could develop into one fairly soon, by mid fall?
At the beginning, as I was putting on some tunes, a guy called out to me from a park bench under some shade, "you run barefoot?"
I thought the way he stated the question, that he had read up on it some. Instead, after 10 minutes' conversation discussing his hip injury from serving in Iraq, his upcoming hip surgery, how he should get out of high-heeled tennis shoes, how his weighted 60-lb ruck sack was bad for his back and that he should consider getting one with a belt or a weighted vest, how the bottoms of my feet are just gently callused, how far I've run, evolution, the elastic recoil of the arches and calves, how the functional load of the feet and lower leg is shifted to the knees and hips which they weren't designed to handle, and so on and so forth--the whole spiel, he remained convinced I was crazy, and left reiterating the same advice he had countered with at many points in the conversation, "you better soak your feet."
The funny thing is, he looked Native American. I didn't ask, and didn't want to presume anything, but I couldn't help but note the irony that so many people of European descent look to native peoples to get back to a more natural way of doing things, and here my naturalistic stance was falling on deaf ears. He simply refused to believe that going barefoot once in a while might help him a bit with his hip issues.
Monday am
One-mile run-commute.
I gotta get back to doing these run-commutes on a regular basis. After laying off them for many months, I've come to realize their value as recovery runs. I think. Will walk home later today with Sid's weighted vest.
Sunday around noon
3.5 miles, shorter Mississippi River bridge circuit--Marshall-Franklin Bridges. Very humid but the second half felt better than the first. This is a great distance for me. I can push the pace just slightly the whole way. Not a true tempo run, but maybe it could develop into one fairly soon, by mid fall?
At the beginning, as I was putting on some tunes, a guy called out to me from a park bench under some shade, "you run barefoot?"
I thought the way he stated the question, that he had read up on it some. Instead, after 10 minutes' conversation discussing his hip injury from serving in Iraq, his upcoming hip surgery, how he should get out of high-heeled tennis shoes, how his weighted 60-lb ruck sack was bad for his back and that he should consider getting one with a belt or a weighted vest, how the bottoms of my feet are just gently callused, how far I've run, evolution, the elastic recoil of the arches and calves, how the functional load of the feet and lower leg is shifted to the knees and hips which they weren't designed to handle, and so on and so forth--the whole spiel, he remained convinced I was crazy, and left reiterating the same advice he had countered with at many points in the conversation, "you better soak your feet."
The funny thing is, he looked Native American. I didn't ask, and didn't want to presume anything, but I couldn't help but note the irony that so many people of European descent look to native peoples to get back to a more natural way of doing things, and here my naturalistic stance was falling on deaf ears. He simply refused to believe that going barefoot once in a while might help him a bit with his hip issues.
Monday am
One-mile run-commute.
I gotta get back to doing these run-commutes on a regular basis. After laying off them for many months, I've come to realize their value as recovery runs. I think. Will walk home later today with Sid's weighted vest.