Bob
Interval club run in vff seyas. Felt nice to get the heart rate up after a couple of weeks of controlled long runs.
Ran the 3.75 miles there and back barefoot. on wet but suprisingly warm pavement... read more
- Site:
- http://www.toadshoes.co.uk/
- Miles:
- 4720 total / 743 in 2013
- Goal:
Spreading the barefoot word and complete my first ultra.
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great Club Run - Intervals 8.88 mi 01:17 08:41 pace
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Barefoot running around Althorp Park - home and resting place of Princess Diana
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Some new friends on the ultra route
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great Recovery Run 2.4 mi 00:27 11:06 pace
No opportunity for a 6 mile recovery so settled for a couple of barefoot off road miles with Fergus. It took him a mile to realise he was enjoying it, but then got too hot running too fast! Overall... read more
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great Royal Barefoot Long Run 24.21 mi 04:02 10:00 pace
Ran a large portion of the ultra marathon route (miles 10 - 31) in bikilas. Mostly off road but non technical, with about 5.5 miles of super smooth road sections which I couldn't resist barefo... read more
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great Club Fartlek 9.36 mi 01:23 08:51 pace
Club fartlek run in vff seeyas in the rain ....
which meant Puddle Playtime for 3.5 miles barefoot run to and from the leisure centre!Cumulative distance for Running: 71.38 mi/7 days, 93.9 mi/14... read more
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great Long run 21.46 mi 03:28 09:42 pace
Long run in vff bikilas / barefoot. Had to move the long run to Friday so drove straight from work to the start of the Ultra route. Had an OS map and compass, the route on the garmin and on my phon... read more
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Those OS maps are awesome, but they're not cheap. I also have the bad fortune of living on the northern border between the Leicester and Loughborough maps, so if I want them I have to buy two!
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I was using a printed low res map from the race website, which was OK (They issue higher resolution ones on the day)
The free Maverick phone app has great OS maps but my GPS position was way off & the garmin line map was very useful but kept disappearing at certain zoom levels!
Between all three it was fine, but I'm glad to be running the route before the event!
I believe you can have a custom OS map printed where you specify the centre. Might work out cheaper and more convenient than two maps?10 days ago • Like
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I looked at that, but it ended up costing the same as two of the normal maps on eBay. Figure I might as well get the two and cover more ground. The Garmin 305 is alright but the path is only so useful without any points of reference. I find the OS maps have so much detail, it's really easy to find the way, which is just as well. My compass skills aren't as good as they were in my Boy Scout days.
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great Easy Off Road 6.17 mi 00:58 09:25 pace
Ran in vff seeyas. Kept heartrate below 150 on the flats and slowed / walked any inclines to maintain a sub 155 heartrate.
150 seems to be the point where it starts to feels like work!
First time I... read more -
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great Kettlebell 00:35
Dear DM - it has been 16 days since my last kettlebell workout.
Monday night is kettlebell night but skipped it last week as I had run a marathon the day before, and this week's was postponed ... read more -
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great Club Trail Run 9.04 mi 01:24 09:20 pace
Club run in vibrams. A breakaway group decided to head out over the local trails which sounded damn fine for a hot sunny evening. Pretty relaxed 5.5 miles with a low average heart rate of 138, brie... read more
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Thanks Luke. It didn't feel like a workout - more like play!
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great International Barefoot Runner... 13.48 mi 02:01 08:57 pace
Long run in bikilas. First camping trip of the year so got to run on new terratory. Pre-mapped a route but a big scary farm dog soon put a stop to that! Ran a rough off road detour round the back o... read more
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good Club Run - Parlauf 2.9 mi 00:24 08:11 pace
Club run in vff bikilas. Could have done with an extra days rest after Sunday's marathon - but I probably won't get a chance to run again until Saturday. Not an easy session either - Parl... read more
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good Shakespeare Marathon 26.28 mi 03:49 08:42 pace
Scond marathon in four weeks, this time in vff bikilas. Double loop on road and a nice stretch of disused railway line. First loop was crowded with over 2000 halfers but the second loop was calmer.... read more
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Awesome run, even if it wasn't quite the time you were hoping for. I dig your choices for food. Simple but effective.
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Thanks Joshua. I've been avoiding gels (apart from the two marathons) to try and adjust to eating food and running. I can't imagine running for 6-7 hours on nothing but sugary gloop!
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great Recovery Run 4.5 mi 00:41 09:06 pace
Recovery run. Barefoot for the first 3.5 miles, then popped on the xeros for the final mile to try out a couple of lacing methods. On the left was my own creation, and on the right a method I found... read more
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great 2 x 1 mile 8.33 mi 01:16 09:09 pace
Club session in vff bikilas. 2 x 1 mile (6:46 & 6:28 mins / mile) Started out at a comfortable pace and gradually ramped up the speed. Felt good to hit 5:30 mins / mile for the final quarter.
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Had a pleasant chat with a lady about being barefoot when I arrived at the leisure centre, and another with a runner on leaving the leisure centre. Then had some abuse from one of the lads in a group half way home. Hopefully I'll get to see them all again next week!
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I do periodically get abuse from teens, but most seem to just gawk. It's usually kids who speak up... "Mummy, that man has no shoes." My favourite was, "see! I told you I didn't need shoes!"
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Nicely done, Bob!
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Very nice!
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