{"id":6881,"date":"2009-09-15T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2009-09-15T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T19:40:23","slug":"the-footwear-experiment-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6881","title":{"rendered":"The Footwear Experiment, Ctd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I'm sure you all know, week four of my minimal-footwear running starts today !<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I hurt: ankles, knees and hips. This week, only my hip hurts a little, and that's an old injury that is irritated when I do anything more than sit quietly at a desk. So, I don't blame the (lack-of) shoes for that.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/5fingers.jpg\" align=right style=\"border:none\"><br \/>\nI've eliminated the walking periods and am running the full distance now - though it isn't very much a distance (maybe a mile and a half). But, there is no more walking, no more trying different things to get the stride correct. I'm Just Doing It. It feels almost natural. It doesn't seem very efficient yet, and I still have to nudge myself back into proper form every now and then, but my legs pretty much know how to do it. Now I guess it's time to start upping the distance. <\/p>\n<p>Today I was tempted to try it with no shoes at all... but I talked myself out of it, because I remembered all the stories about what running on pavement does to soft, un-calloused, bare feet the first time out (\"bloody flaps of skin\"?) No thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that's pretty amazing to me. Three weeks of running every other day was enough to learn how to run nearly barefoot. <\/p>\n<p>Now if I could get people to stop whispering and pointing at my shoes when I wear them around town...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I'm sure you all know, week four of my minimal-footwear running starts today ! Last week, I hurt: ankles, knees and hips. This week, only my hip hurts a little, and that's an old injury that is irritated when I do anything more than sit quietly at a desk. So, I don't blame the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fivefingers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}