My feet and legs ached somewhat more this last week. I think that’s largely down to my long weekend off last weekend and then catching up by running two days in a row. This I think was a mistake and I’ll not be doing it again.
So it was with some trepidation that I approached yesterdays run, stepping up to 4K. Now I know what you’re thinking. 4K? Is that all? Well for conventional running that would be true. But for adapting my body to something that it’s not done since I was 4 years old, it’s a different matter entirely. I want to (need to) achieve this transition without injury and slowly slowly is the only way. But I needn’t have worried, it was a breeze. Yes, I can feel it in my calves today, but again it’s nothing more than what you’d feel the day after the gym.
I think the skin on the balls of my feet are now getting used to the different use now. They seem to slowly be showing signs of the skin thickening and they don’t seem to be sore as they were in the early stages of my barefoot training. So two more weeks of this then I’ll be up to 5K which is a complete circuit of Clapham Common. Rock on!