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15th April 2022 02:11
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Barefoot Running
I've been running for about three years. With shoes, on concrete. Always getting mildly injured every couple months despite putting a ton of effort into my form. Never getting beyond being able to do 2-3 miles comfortably, at a decent pace, without stopping. Which was crazy, considering how frequently I was running. A couple times per week, very consistently. I should have been improving more.
Last year, I tried barefoot running on the beach. My form naturally became perfect instantly. Whereas with shoes, I would always have to focus on not f*cking up, and when I got tired, my form inevitably degraded. Barefoot, though? Zero injuries or concerns. Perfect form, even when very tired. My feet got so tough that I could literally run on shells, no sand to be found, without issue. Which makes sense. Cavemen were running around in raw nature all of the time. And if you get an infection as a caveman, you're dead. Makes sense we'd evolve to avoid that.
Now I'm planning on making the leap to running barefoot on concrete, because I don't want to drive 25-30 minutes round trip to the beach every single day. Before you say it's impossible, it's apparently not, so long as your form is good and you're light on your feet. Lots of literature to support this along with anecdotal reports from many people who put in serious mileage completely barefoot on concrete. In fact, some evidence points to harder surfaces being *better* to run barefoot on, because you have to have such perfect form.
I'm so, so excited. I think this is going to be big.
Anyone else run barefoot? Any crazy motherf*ckers run barefoot on concrete like I'm planning to?
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15th April 2022 03:18
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