Posted this in a couple of other places but I thought some might find this useful and inspiring. This has made me think I need to put some winter barefoot running instructions (pre-warming, safeguards, etc.) on my website.
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Finally got around to publishing some stats from our COLD, COLD, winter last year. Here are a few highlights:
Highlights:
Ran barefoot every day outside from December 21, 2009 through March 20, 2010 (89 Running Days)
http://barefootrunner.org/winter/09winter.htm
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Finally got around to publishing some stats from our COLD, COLD, winter last year. Here are a few highlights:
Highlights:
Ran barefoot every day outside from December 21, 2009 through March 20, 2010 (89 Running Days)
- 48 of these days I ran in snow and/or ice
- Ran 2 days in sub-10 degree F weather (not counting windchill)
- Ran 15 days in sub-20 degree F weather (not counting windchill)
- For all 89 days, my average run was 7.2 miles a day at an average of 33.6 degrees F
http://barefootrunner.org/winter/09winter.htm