Well its official, I suck at running in shoes now! Last winter was my first winter running, and when the temp dropped below what I was comfortable with barefoot I was still able to wear my VFF's. Now this year my cold tolerance is a bit better but I still can't run sub freezing, and all the local roads suffer from the salt issue. But 75% of the time with minishoes I get arch cramps. Does this happen to anyone else? I struggled with arch cramps bfr too, but it was more of a transition thing, with more training it went away, only to come back a few times when I really pushed myself like during a race. But with shoes it sometimes starts cramping up even during my warm up slow pace (>12mm). This past race I did on the first reinforced this problem... I started getting a painful cramp in my right foot arch when I hit 7mm pace a mile and half or two in and had to to back down a little. My first instinct is to land more flat footed and loose, but I tried shifting around a bit between than and a forefoot strike and didnt really notice any difference.
I don't know, maybe I'm just not to the level yet were I can maintain good form in minimalist footwear. Jason described them to be more advanced, so maybe it will take some more time and experience until I can wear them and still keep good form. Might have to uncover the dread mill for the winter. Or maybe I need to finally rig somethng up to take a video to see whats changing between bf and mini.
Sorry, I guess I'm not really asking a question here, more or less venting a little! But if anyone has any ideas about what my problem might be, I'm all ears!
I don't know, maybe I'm just not to the level yet were I can maintain good form in minimalist footwear. Jason described them to be more advanced, so maybe it will take some more time and experience until I can wear them and still keep good form. Might have to uncover the dread mill for the winter. Or maybe I need to finally rig somethng up to take a video to see whats changing between bf and mini.
Sorry, I guess I'm not really asking a question here, more or less venting a little! But if anyone has any ideas about what my problem might be, I'm all ears!