I have had this Blog going since 2005 and have been commenting on all sorts of stuff, that’s what blogs are for, putting up stuff you want to talk about and you do not have to have anybody agree with you or censure you in any form,within obvious parameters of course.
I have been racing Triathlons for over 10 years, sport has been a vehicle for me to get motivation, meet great people and an excuse to travel.
I have spoken openly about my journey with depression and what I considered was beneficial to working through that learning experience, ( I keep another blog at www.healthease.info/blog with more depression related material).
I credit the Raw foods
Lifestyle I adopted to be a significant factor in my being able to gain a control over the spiral that I was in and able me to look at being able to break thought patterns that continued to commandeer my actions
Was it just the food choices ,no I will not say it was not only that, as I was not a SAD diet person even though consumption of alcohol, was a sad side of my existence.
Without realizing it I was using my sport to keep my depression at bay often quieting the voices by burying my self in my training and competition.
When an old injury flared up and stopped me running I simply lost the ability to buffer my depression and bring it out to the place where I am to day.
SO
Whats that all got to do with
BareFoot Running
Glad you asked, while trying to understand how to rehablitate the injury and get on top of it all I realized how many lower limb injuries I had had and set about understanding where the weak link was.
I came across a series of mentions of minimalist running and barefoot running while searching for answers to how to rehabilitate what I thought was the problem the science all made good sense to me and over a period of a year I learned a more efficient way of running and adapted to barefoot running with great results.
One of the things with me is I never want to do thing 1/2 assed I like being up the pointy end of competition, so even though I had transitioned to lighter shoes and then to barefoot running over an 16mnth period I had not conditioned my feet to take the conditioning the rest of my body had as a competitive athlete and I came up with an injury from trying to go to hard to quickly.
If I were to give any advice to any one on regards to going Barefoot running take time to learn to walk barefoot first as it give you a sense of how you are connecting with the ground with each footfall .
By walking I mean mindful connection take your self to your feet and feel how your body is in relation to them, feel your balance, note your carriage, we have been desensitized from our surroundings by our ” civilized” way of life to our detriment.
This is true in the way we view our food sources and our relationship with the earth our connection to it.
This video
is just a short interpretation of what I mean by fully connecting by walking
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