Ouch!

My ancles hurt. Like hell. Apparently barefoot running puts lot of strain on the ancle muscles, especially when running on asfalt. That's a common rookie mistake, I'm now reading all over the place, to start out with too long distances. I think i did 2 km in my home brewed Huaraches (the flip-flops I butchered and put together again. I call them Frankenstein's Fliparaches) and 2 km barefoot. Obviuosly a bit too long to start with.

I've been reading some really fun stuff about the whole barefoot /minimalistic running thing, I mean, it's not an alltogether balanced debate. I guess that's what makes it so fun! It's really polarized and sometimes rightout abusive, but most of the time just fun. Hear this, for example, doesn't it give your cheeks a kind of blush of embarrassed recognition?

"Recently my hipster friends started running. Inspired by Born to Run, however, they spend more time quoting Barefoot Ted and explaining how shoe companies conspire against me, than actually running. They take every opportunity to bash shod runners for not seeing the One Truth - that barefoot running is a sacred ritual, and everything else is unnatural and wrong. Every now and again, they take their Garmin watch, their iPod, and put on their $150 Vibrams to waddle a mile or two. Before heading out the door, they are happy to remind me: “Henrik, you really should go natural”."

Read the whole post here:

http://halhen.tumblr.com/post/971212244/barefoot-vs-shoes-my-bias

Tomorrow I'm getting out again, to waddle a mile or two in my Fliparaches. See ya!

//J