Take it easy Bare! You are taking this to another level, I am not evening doing the challenge, well here and there I log when I remember, but it's all about getting back to the simplicity of barefoot running, which is less information
Wow Lee, you're getting to be a gadgeteer. Here I've gone the opposite way of no gadgets. Still curious though about your findings. Did get a 1 km run in today, stayed on the sidewalks and away from slushy roads.
Well, it's not so much data for data's sake, but to find out what my tolerances are, so I can more reliably predict whether or not I can barefoot it on any particular day. I agree that it's necessary to take windchill into account for the purposes of classifying a run in a Winter Challenge 5-degree-C category, but I also suspect that windchill temp is not as important for sole-to-ground contact as air temp. So, for example, if it's -10C air temp but windless, is that easier or harder to put up with than -5C air temp with a -15C windchill? I'd like to develop a better sense of that sort of thing.
Also, I'll soon (like maybe this afternoon) be forced to start running up on this one fairgrounds street where the snow melts and runs off before it does almost anywhere else around here, and where they plow promptly and don't salt. However, it's a bit windy up on that street, so I need to know how much windchill is going to affect my ability to run bare up there.
It's still all about running barefooted as much as possible, not the data
per se (or even the Winter Challenge for that matter). In fact, my Garmin F205 has been reduced to an odometer; I almost never pay attention to pace any more. I just put the Garmin on at the beginning of a run and then check the miles at the end. During the run it just sits there on my wrist, and on well-established routes I no longer wear it at all. In either case, I just try to feel the run, and have been messing around a bit with fartleks lately, speeding up when I feel like it, slowing done when I tire or lose motivation. Same with my lifting; I've always gone by feel, never by a set number of sets and reps, or even exercises. If I'm not feeling it, I don't do it.
Anyway, we got a few inches of wet snow yesterday, now it's turning into slush. My stubbed toe is almost runnable, so I might do my first back-n-forth run up in the fairgrounds later today, if the street there has cleared by then. However, what I really feel like is another longish run down by the river. I think they've probably salted it though, with this latest snowfall, so the river is probably out now for most of the season. It's a pity, because the Mississippi is quite beautiful in the winter, half-frozen over with snow-covered bluffs. The ice was just starting to form when I ran down there on last Saturday's 10-miler.
No worries TJ, we are behaving! Just helping out fellow members and reel them back in if the technology overpowers them
My high tech alert went off on this one!
Ya TJ, no offense taken from my barefoot brethren BG & Dutchie. I realize reformed data-junkies will always over-preach abstinence. But us social numerologists know how to imbibe data responsibly.