Barefoot Mileage
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Vibrams can give your feet hell. Granted not as bad a regular shoes by a long shot, but hell nonetheless. Especially when the feet get wet and friction increases. Here you can see some wear spots across the tops of my feet since I wear the sprints, and along the inside of my feet. Went for a 16 mile run across town the other morning. I used my LED light for running the dark gravel road I live on. I strapped it on the front of my camelbak, and set out at 5:00am. NPR was on my mp3 player/radio. I listened to continuing coverage of hurricane Ike. It's funny, each longrun weekend, there is a new hurricane that is getting it's 15 minutes in the limelight.
Also used my gel mixture of jelly and salt thinned down with water. Seemed to work fine. The only other thing I could add to it is some crushed caffeine pills, and some citric acid for extra electrolyte replacement. I'll experiement more in the future.
Labels: barefoot runner, barefoot running, gel flask, homemade endurance gel, hurricane ike, running barefoot, vibram barefoot, vibram five fingers
posted by Sean Dietrich @ 12:03 PM,
