Yeah, I'm going through that learning curve right now.

And one of the things I'm learning is that I like running barefoot -- at
least on grass and on the indoor composition track at the Y. Grass
seems to allow me to run pretty good Pose, brings out some speed,
seems to let me run distances more easily, and of course doesn't
cause blisters and such. The indoor track I'm more cautious about -
- I haven't run on it for longer than five minutes at a time, so far, but
of course I am hoping that I will be able to build up to long times,
after which I guess I'll start the street. I live in central Ohio, where
winter isn't much fun for barefeet, and we have only asphalt and
very uneven brick paving -- no concrete. So I think I'll be indoors for
quite a while -- till next Spring at least.

Your evidence about time differentials is pretty dramatic - thanks for
sharing!

-- Jerry

On 14 Oct 2004 at 19:56, Ken Bob Saxton wrote:



As Rick said, there is a learning curve to go through when you start
running barefoot or pose, or Chi-Running, or whatever.

My first barefoot marathon was 11 years after my first and only shod
marathon, on a fast flat course (Long Beach Marathon). So I guess I
had plenty of time to relearn how to run, without posting any race
times for comparison during my learning period. I came back, as I
said, 11 years later, 11 years older, but improved my marathon time
by
half an hour, on a mountainous, trail course!

Though the sampling of one marathon may not be significant, I did
run
several 10K races with shoes during that same period. In barefeet,
11
years later, my 10K times were usually about 5 minutes faster than
my
best shod 10K in my early 30s.

Like Rick, I too am slowing down with age, and partly because I'm
running a marathon a month. I'm also not really getting in the
running
I should in between the marathons. I just turned 49 in July.
Nonetheless, my times are still significantly faster barefoot, than
they were with shoes in my early 30s.

-barefoot ken bob

--- In barefootrick@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Griffin" <jerryg@c...>
wrote: > > Hey Rick, > > I'm running Pose -- a newbie, but I love it.
Obviously, barefoot > running came up, I tried it, and am almost
hooked. My whole running > style barefoot is better than shod. So
are my times (on grass). I > am in "contemplation" about switching
to
barefoot only. > > Meanwhile: it looks to me as if your marathon
times
dropped off > quite a bit around the time you made the shift. What,
if any, > connection was there between your beginning to run
barefoot,
and > your weaker times? Long Beach example: still in the 9's --
not
the > speed you used to have. Do you conclude that barefoot
running
will > generally be slower than shod for the longer distances?





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