10-Mile Milestone

Barefoot 10.5 miles. All asphalt, 44 deg. Longest & coldest yet. Faster running means warmer feet, but SNOW?! Chapter 10 holds the secrets. Goal for now is barefoot Derry, NH's 5k Turkey Trot. Maybe Anthem Half in March.

Barefoot Running by Michael Sandler

Reading Michael Sandler's new book, Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth.

Summary from Introduction:

Had near death experience, told never walk again. Started crutching, then walking. Running? Not so much, continuous injuries.

Read barefoot article (fewer injuries in less expensive shoes, higher impact WITH shoes, perceived safety of cushioning actually harms feet, better balance and control in thinner/less cushioned shoes, children in 3rd world countries far less likely to have fallen arches and foot problems, etc).

Started barefoot running - 100 yards first day, ice two days, 200 yards third day, ice again, 300 yards, 400 yards...

Adapted to roads within 3 months, running 10Ks faster than ever. Now running 10-20 miles/day without shoes on trails, gravel, hot melting asphalt and SNOW!

Snow?! Now I'm REALLY interested! Check out the video.

Barefoot Running Program

Started getting serious about barefoot running yesterday. Five minutes a day for 1 week, 10 minutes the next, 15 minutes/day the 3rd week, etc.

Once again, overdid it yesterday with 25 minutes of shod barefoot running technique. Made today's 5 minutes of barefoot running rather difficult due to right shin tightness. No matter. Will cut the shod running, more patiently stick to the few minutes of barefoot running at beginning or end of longer runs.

Goal is to work steadily towards barefoot 5K, 8K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon. Should be ready for 5K by end of May.

Exciting science project!

Dismal Swamp Stomp 1/2 Marathon Splits

Pace/Heart Rate - Mile
7:12/154 - 1
7:15/161 - 2
7:20/160 - 3
7:23/160 - 4
7:29/161 - 5
7:24/162 - 6
7:19/165 - 7
7:17/166 - 8
7:11/169 - 9
7:20/169 - 10
7:28/167 - 11
7:23/168 - 12
7:08/172 - 13
6:45/179 - 13.1

Average Pace/Heart Rate
7:21/168

Dismal Swamp Stomp 1/2 Marathon Results

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: KaleRunning.com
Date: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Subject: Dismal Swamp Stomp 1/2 Marathon Results
To: robertft3@gmail.com

Robert Fredric Taylor,

Congratulations in finishing the Dismal Swamp Stomp 1/2 Marathon on April 17, 2010. We hope you enjoyed this event. in its second year, and that you will make plans to come run with us again For your records, the weather at the start was overcast, 64-70 degrees F, 77% humidity, West wind 8 mph.

There were 59 finishers in the Male 40 to 44 age group and 816 finishers in the 1/2 Marathon division.

Your overall finish place was 50, your age group finish place was 7 and your gender finish place was 46. Your time 1:36:13.71 gave you a 7:21 pace per mile.

Your 3M time was 21:54.70 for a pace of 7:18 per mile
Your 6M time was 44:11.24 for a pace of 7:25 per mile
Your 10M time was 1:13:30.55 for a pace of 7:20 per mile

For a full listing of results please visit http://results.active.com/pages/page.jsp?eventLinkageID=71649

Event photos will be posted at http://portraitsbycris.com/sessions.php

Happy Running,

Team Dismal Swamp Stomp

Day 1, Monday: Family Triathlon Training

My base training program - http://www.trinewbies.com/tno_trainingprograms/tno_HIM.asp.

Great start! Lorrie topped off yesterday's first day of training with a frigid swim in the Pasquatank River. Walked the golf course together while kids took their weekly lesson. Fresh dinner at home followed by a 3-mi bike sprint to YMCA (12:48); T1 (3:20); 1000yd swim - 300 w/u, 5 x 100 @ 2:00-2:05 w/15-sec rest (final 1:50), 200 cool down (25:22); T2 (3:43); 3-mi bike sprint home (12:51). Total 58:03. Home by 8:30pm. Family read, bed by 9:30.

Getting ready for 7-mi run to p/u mountain bike, ride home, breakfast, family 4-m bike loop, yard work. Forecast next 3 days is sunny, mid to high 80's. Couldn't have timed a better spring break! :-)

Registered for Musselman Triathlon!

http://www.musselmantri.com/

Just registered for Musselman triathlon: Geneva NY, Jul 10-11. My first 1/2 Ironman.

Lorrie & Jack race mini-Mussel on Sat (750 meter swim - 16.1 mile bike - 3.2 mile run), kids & I volunteer.

Kids (Grace 100 yard swim, 3 mile bike, 1/2 mile run; Mary Kathryn 50 yard swim, 2 mile bike, 1/4 mile run) & I (1.2 mile swim - 56 mile bike - 13.1 mile run) race Sun, GRANDPARENTS VOLUNTEER...right, Dad? :-)

Already behind my training program. Need to swim 1000m and bike 20-miles today. Lorrie completed her bike this morning.

Absolutely gorgeous outside. Great start to our local spring break vacation!

Barefoot Running

Trying it, liking it!

Popular Science: Will Running Barefoot Cure What Ails Us?
BareFoot Ted's Adventures: http://barefootted.com/

BareFoot Runner: http://www.barefootrunner.com/