{"id":312,"date":"2008-08-05T23:44:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:44:04","slug":"two-miles-barefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/08\/two-miles-barefoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Two miles barefoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without the bike commute, I&#8217;m back to barefoot running for exercise. I can now do a stretch of 2 miles on asphalt with no problems (other than sore calves). Why barefoot? Because it feels better, and it&#8217;s ultimately easier on the joints. The human biomechanical system does excellent work if you let it, and is easily capable of soft landings via shock-absorption in the knees, ankles, and musculature. In contrast, when one wears shoes, it&#8217;s too easy to slam the feet down and let the padding (attempt to) take care of impact management.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get started, go slowly. For a month I only walked, starting out with very short distances. I&#8217;m at the point now when I see a new texture of carpet, hardwood, or other floors, I&#8217;m tempted to kick my shoes off and sample.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be ready for the <a href=\"http:\/\/inside.nike.com\/blogs\/humanrace-en_GB\">Nike+ Human Race<\/a> 10k coming up on August 31. (And I wonder how many runners in a shoe-company-sponosred race will be barefoot) :-) -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without the bike commute, I&#8217;m back to barefoot running for exercise. I can now do a stretch of 2 miles on asphalt with no problems (other than sore calves). Why barefoot? Because it feels better, and it&#8217;s ultimately easier on the joints. The human biomechanical system does excellent work if you let it, and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[28,2,17],"tags":[266,264,263,267,265,262],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everythingismiscellaneous","category-mobile","category-trends","tag-barefoot","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-nature","tag-nike","tag-running"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-52","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}