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Haaiie! Achilles tendon hurt!

Last week before taking the plane to go on holidays, I ran 1h08 at a good pace to relax the legs before a short flight. The day after, both Achilles tendons did hurt. Not much but enough to be disturbing. I was giving myself massages of the tendons for two days. After a week of rest, it is ok, but there is clearly something there that I don't like. And it is related to barefoot running. I went running again today, 58' with shoes. No pain at all, even after cooling down. So there is definitively linked to barefoot running. I might not be as ready as I expected to be.

The running was great. I love to run, with or without shoes. But it is nicer, more enjoyable without.

What I will do now is to go back to shoes, and only run barefoot every other time. We will see how it develop and if I start again dropping the shoes more often.

Seems like going barefoot is not so easy eventually. Well, that's the point of this blog. If it was easy, it won't be needed.

Keep tuned.