If I was going to do this barefoot thing, I was going to do it right! I read everything that I could and all the blogs that I could find. I read everything that the docs said and I especially looked at any running form talk. I must have watched that Kenyon video 100 times. I am an engineer and I totally over think things!
This mentality cost me about 12 months of not being able to improve much, trying to do it right and every time I had a setback I reasoned that I was doing something wrong which led me back to reading more and trying to do what “the experts” said.
If only I had listened to my body instead of what everyone was saying. The thing that finally cured me was when Bare Lee sent me that link to the article that said what, NOT TO TRY AND CONTROL. After that point I ONLY thought about pulling my arms back as rapidly as I could and let everything else just happen naturally and easily.
Shortly after that I completed my first 5K road race finishing 15th overall, I now enjoy my runs again, feel good, and am making steady progress on miles run per week. I have lofty goals of besting my 5K time this year that I ran 15 years ago.
Jim
This mentality cost me about 12 months of not being able to improve much, trying to do it right and every time I had a setback I reasoned that I was doing something wrong which led me back to reading more and trying to do what “the experts” said.
If only I had listened to my body instead of what everyone was saying. The thing that finally cured me was when Bare Lee sent me that link to the article that said what, NOT TO TRY AND CONTROL. After that point I ONLY thought about pulling my arms back as rapidly as I could and let everything else just happen naturally and easily.
Shortly after that I completed my first 5K road race finishing 15th overall, I now enjoy my runs again, feel good, and am making steady progress on miles run per week. I have lofty goals of besting my 5K time this year that I ran 15 years ago.
Jim