Hi all,
I'm a college runner and after missing almost the whole last year due to injury, i'm looking to give barefoot/minimalism a try. I am in the beginning stages of "converting" to barefoot running. I have a few questions and what not though. I have an idea for a plan I want to follow in order to get used to running barefoot and I was hoping for some input on it. I have a good background of spending almost all my time barefoot already so I skipped that whole transitioning and went straight into running. Before I started doing any research on barefoot running I put on my pair of VFF's and went and ran for a good 5 miles or so. I was sore so I took a day off and then the next day went and ran 6 miles in my minimus (which hurt a part of my left foot btw so i have a question about that later).
Everything was fine after all that but thats when I started doing some research on the subject and realized that I should probably go a little slower. Now I'm here!
I decided on a plan where I would just completely switch over and not do any running at all in my normal trainers, since normal trainers seem to be the death of me running wise. Anyways, I am starting off with 10 minutes running the first day and then every day thereafter increase it by a minute each day, and if i'm sore at all maybe take the day off and just do all cross training. Then if I'm feeling 100% during my run I will add 2 minutes a day instead of one. Is that a conservative enough plan do you think??
Also, when I go back to college I'll be increasing my mileage to 50+ a week so I'm gonna be in the market for a good minimalist shoe pretty soon here. My question is, how many miles do you guys think I should be able to run daily/weekly before I get a minimalist shoe? I also plan on doing a few runs a week barefoot when i'm at college.
Thank you in advance for anyone who has the time of day to read all the boring stuff I posted! I'm looking forward to some insight and guidance from all the veterans here.
Thanks!
I'm a college runner and after missing almost the whole last year due to injury, i'm looking to give barefoot/minimalism a try. I am in the beginning stages of "converting" to barefoot running. I have a few questions and what not though. I have an idea for a plan I want to follow in order to get used to running barefoot and I was hoping for some input on it. I have a good background of spending almost all my time barefoot already so I skipped that whole transitioning and went straight into running. Before I started doing any research on barefoot running I put on my pair of VFF's and went and ran for a good 5 miles or so. I was sore so I took a day off and then the next day went and ran 6 miles in my minimus (which hurt a part of my left foot btw so i have a question about that later).
Everything was fine after all that but thats when I started doing some research on the subject and realized that I should probably go a little slower. Now I'm here!
I decided on a plan where I would just completely switch over and not do any running at all in my normal trainers, since normal trainers seem to be the death of me running wise. Anyways, I am starting off with 10 minutes running the first day and then every day thereafter increase it by a minute each day, and if i'm sore at all maybe take the day off and just do all cross training. Then if I'm feeling 100% during my run I will add 2 minutes a day instead of one. Is that a conservative enough plan do you think??
Also, when I go back to college I'll be increasing my mileage to 50+ a week so I'm gonna be in the market for a good minimalist shoe pretty soon here. My question is, how many miles do you guys think I should be able to run daily/weekly before I get a minimalist shoe? I also plan on doing a few runs a week barefoot when i'm at college.
Thank you in advance for anyone who has the time of day to read all the boring stuff I posted! I'm looking forward to some insight and guidance from all the veterans here.
Thanks!