I feel good (HD/2 - 5 weeks)

Feeling very good. I just completed another Wednesday run with 5Fs, 15 km in just 67'. That was good and feet are feeling really well. I still have to learn to relax and worry less on the downhill parts. It is looking good, I am already much faster than initially, but I am still careful with stones, and not relaxed. I also feel that I am pulling on my back to slow down, thing that I clearly shouldn't do. I need a couple more practice run and I should be OK. The problem is that the HD half marathon has lots of hills, including the last one, from the castle to the old town, really step and fast. I need to learn to speed it up if I don't want to loose much time there. Anyway, my feet and legs are feeling good. One point that I feel important to mention is that previously, with shoes, I always felt completely worn out. My joints ached, my legs and back felt bad ... I was happy, feeling good about running, but could felt the impact on my body. Definitively NOT what I am feeling with barefoot. On the contrary, it feels good all over my body. The feet, which have receive directly plenty of impacts are just feeling wonderful. I feel like an animal that was hold in a cage and could only move in a limited space to which you suddenly open the door and can now run without limit on huge space. I know that's a little excessive but that is the image I use to represent what I feel. In short, I feel really good after running barefoot, unlike what I use to feel with shoes. Until the race, in five weeks, I will try to run only barefoot, including two practice run, one this weekend, one two weeks before it, and including 24 km in Belgium one week before HD. Should be nice. Let's see how it goes.
But definitively, for the new comers, the sole of 7mm makes a big difference. The Bikila LS are very very nice, very comfortable and just enough protection below the feet. See a new beginning post I also think that starting to run barefoot in the woods, with lots of branches, small stones, irregular path is not ideal, but well, too late, I have done it. New barefoot runners should definitively start with enough sole, 7 mm and ideally on concrete.
Here is my practice log.

As I said, the following bars should all be green.


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