Sunday - continue being sick. feel like running would be counter-productive. got a burger with kiesz for lunch and it was scrumptious.
I don't really remember how much I ran this week. 45 minutes yesterday, because I got a cramp. 45 the day before, because my knees hurt. 70 the day before that. 30 today because I'm sick and my head hurts. I would really like to train but the world seems to be conspiring against me.
11/5/07 - 11/11/07 Another Lost Week
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Today I ran 69 minutes barefoot. It's a good feeling, but sometimes I just don't know how you do it.
actually, i seem to do better barefoot than shod. recently i've had dull pain in my knees whenever i run with shoes, which i guess is the tradeoff for extra stress on the achilles for going barefoot.
i've been working on the achilles pretty regularly, though, and it's doing well. i've done a little bit of lifting with my legs in hopes of strengthening my quads and avoiding knee problems, but i'm unsure yet whether or not that's worth it.
I was referring more to the duration around a single field more than anything else (like your regular 60-90 minute barefoot runs). Maybe I just haven't been at that high of a volume in a while, so it seems long to me.
In any case, I actually know exactly what you mean. It seems like these days I'm alternating barefoot days and days in shoes. It's actually sort of weird, because running barefoot makes my calves pretty sore, but it actually fixes any weird achilles aches. Maybe it's because of an increased range of motion which somehow stretches out the whole lower leg system, but who knows. What I do know is that the days I run barefoot, iliotibial band and the part of the knee it connects to both act up a lot less.
Strength might not be a bad idea, just in case it does do something positive. I'm doing sets of lunges these days, but at the core of it all is a lot of hip work. I guess I've always just been lead to believe that a lot of IT band issues were due to odd abductor/adductor flexibility and strength issues, so I've mainly been working on that. So far I think it helps.
Oh, also, when you run barefoot, do you still only switch directions one or two times around the field or do you do more than that?
I start to go a little crazy and my feet start feeling sort of odd if I don't switch directions pretty often. Also sometimes I cut weird figure 8's and just cut across the fields just so I will never know exactly how long one loop is (trying to stick to timed runs, not distances).
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