{"id":520,"date":"2010-04-02T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:24:38","slug":"running-barefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"running barefoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read the book<\/a>. I’m drinking the cool aid. Ran my little 5k today without shoes and realized a bunch of things: <\/p>\n

1. Running barefoot you spend a lot more time looking where you’re going and thinking about your landings.<\/p>\n

2. Running barefoot eliminates the noise of a Clydesdale class runner plodding along. When I used to run with headphones, my rule was that I had to be able to hear my feet landing, which was definitely cheating because the smack of shoe on pavement was so loud. <\/p>\n

3. With super flat feet — a friend once described my feet as pancakes with stubs — running shoes just add another inch for me to roll my ankle over. <\/p>\n

4. Running without shoes reminds you how heavy running shoes — even good running shoes — are. My feet felt so much lighter and it made running that much easier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read the book. I’m drinking the cool aid. Ran my little 5k today without shoes and realized a bunch of things: 1. Running barefoot you spend a lot more time looking where you’re going and thinking about your landings. 2. Running barefoot eliminates the noise of a Clydesdale class runner plodding along. When I … Continue reading running barefoot<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-8o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}