feels good!

It feels so good.
I just love to run with my 5Fs. They are extremely light, it feels so natural to run. But may be the most important is right after running.
With shoes, I used to feel destroyed, pretty hurt in the lower articulations, knees and hips. General bad feeling all around the body.
With my 5Fs, I just feel good all over. A few hours after the run, I actually feel like I want to go back again. It feels really really good after the run.
I am getting more and more addicted to my 5Fs.
Hope you enjoy them too.

Running for a healthier life

Recent study demonstrate that running regularly has positive effect on your becoming older.
In their study,Ortega et al., Plos One 2014 compared the metabolic effects of running regularly versus walking. They found a positive correlation between mitigation of the age-related deterioration of walking economy. Interestingly, walking for exercise appears to have minimal effect on the same parameters. The authors measured walking economy using expired gas analysis and walking mechanics via ground reaction forces during the last 2 minutes of each 5 minute trial. A a greater metabolic cost (worse economy) compared to young adults is a distinctive characteristic of impaired walking performance among older adults, which itself is a key predictor of morbidity among older adults. This analysis only add to the wealth of other that show the positive effect of moving regularly on life expectancy and quality. Doint exercise lengthen your life, delay dependency arrival. All this translate into an important of economical cost that is not spent by public health system.

Back to running 2014

Back to regular running.
Almost holidays in Belgium. Perfect weather, unlike Sevilla.
Have been running 55' and 65'. No problem. After one week in Germany, where I was swimming and climbing, I am back to running every day. Twice 55' so far, Tuesday, Wednesday. Have been using the knee protection just in case, more prevention than anything else. Alternatively on left and right knee.
I have learned from bare foot running to have shorter but faster strides, but always below the breast. And I do wear bf shoes every day now. Just love my bf shoes.
Another 55' on Thursday. All good.
Friday no time, stayed with children.
65' on Saturday and 63' on Sunday, no problem.

Ran 30' barefoot in Sevilla 09/08/14
Ran 50' barefoot in Menorca 15/08/14

Have been running mostly barefoot ever since then in Sevilla. The weather is now perfect for that.
Run in Tournai, BE 1h, Bruxelles, forest de Soigne 1h, then again in Tournai.

All go so far.

Conclusion I

That's it, I am back from injuries and now I know what and why. The real trick is to run below your body. What I mean is that you don't want your feet to pass in front of your torso. Keep your steps shorts. More rapid if you want but short, below your body.

I am just back from a long knee problems, see some previous posts. But after close to two years of ons and offs, I am now back to long runs. Well, all shod, of course, but I ran twice 90' without any problem. The only trick is to keep your feet below your body, really. I even bought myself one of those knee pads to hold it together. But what really made if for me what to stay with short strides, may be faster, but short. Don't bring your feet in front of you. And land on the heel.

So, of course, that's what bf running do for you, it forces you not to land on the heel. Just try it once and you will see. I promise you will not do it twice. However, I already wasted my body quite a lot. I cut my Achilles tendon, twice in fact, and had various knee injuries due to skiing. So I guess that all together that doesn't help with the quite traumatic bf running.

I am not done with bf though. I am actually anxious to leave my soled shoes at home and grab my 5fs. But I will wait a while. I will first do a couple of long runs, coupled with speed training before I go back to bf. I do love it though. But again, you have to take it easy, go slow.

And definitively, keep your feet below your body. Enjoy your next run.