Barefoot Drilling

I just had to blog about this! I don’t actually do these drills to the letter. However, I do regular barefoot runs and focus on relaxing my feet. Look at this . Interesting isn’t it? At least once weekly I go up to our local cricket pitch, take off my shoes, walk around, relax Read more...
The Weekend

For me, it was a little disappointing due to not being able to run the Shakespeare Half Marathon that I have been training for these last ten or twelve weeks. I have a cold the likes of which I haven’t experienced in years: it is quite horrid, normally I have a sniffle for a day Read more...
Enough to Break Contact with the Ground

The above title says what amount of effort should be put into lifting your feet from the ground. The emphasis is on getting the feet off the ground quickly rather than driving the toes into the ground. That is not to say that we do not push at all, our bodies do push us along, Read more...
Shoes
This is a short blog entry but I just had to share this Born to Run Vibrams tomorrow. What will you do? Well, only you can decide! At last! Someone has actually been studying the differences between barefoot and shod running techniques!