Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Three in Five

I have reported here and elsewhere before that I have only done two half-races barefoot, removing my shoes half-way through an 8K XC race and a road 10K. However, last Tuesday, I did an entire 5K XC race barefoot, winning my age group in 20:25. I almost chickened out, after warming up barefoot and then putting on XC shoes. But the shoes felt restricting, and I figured if I ran barefoot it would actually force me to go easy. See, I wanted to recover from The Double Trouble 30K trail race I had done two days prior, where I also won my age group (wearing XC shoes). Then I completed a The Sunset Classic 5 mile road race on Thursday, my 3rd race in 5 days, in 31:30 (shod).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good for you!!!

30k is pretty impressive.

I ran barefoot on the beach this morning.

Anonymous said...

Good for you.

30k is pretty impressive

I ran barefoot on the beach this morning

Scooter said...

Hey Gene,
I figured you'd enjoy seeing this post on my blog. Note the pix of the couple. Long time, no see; hope you're all well.
Wayne

Scooter said...

Also, Gene, I thought you might be interested in seeing this: http://ambyburfoot.blogspot.com/2006/08/charlie-doc-robbins-1921-2006-rip.html