{"id":2090,"date":"2010-08-04T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2010-08-04T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T19:03:41","slug":"long-run-training-6-71mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/04\/long-run-training-6-71mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Run Training: 6.71mi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ran on 8\/1\/2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the longest distance I&#8217;ve done wearing my Vibram Five Fingers, KSO model. My legs felt great because the &#8220;shoes&#8221; I wore were quite light, but my big toes kinda suffered towards the tail end of the run (same familiar &#8220;hot spot&#8221; feeling where one can anticipate a blister forming). In the past, it&#8217;s only been my right big toe, but the left (I suppose) felt <em>left <\/em>out so it decided to have a mirror version of the right toe&#8217;s malady.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend, I need to run 8-9mi and then the weekend after that, 10mi. I&#8217;ll be running all these barefoot (or rather, in my VFF&#8217;s) and then that&#8217;ll be it. I&#8217;ll be retiring these for longer runs (albeit will continue using them for my shorter distances\/ mid-week runs) and switching back to shod running. I just hope that it&#8217;s enough for me to have developed a more efficient forefoot strike and not revert\u00a0 back to heel striking and risk tweaking my knee again.<\/p>\n<p>Stats: Garmin <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/42765738\">Forerunner 50 (HR)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/player\/42768286\">Forerunner 205 <\/a><br \/>\nGear used: Vibram Five Fingers KSO, Spibelt, Phiten necklace, Phiten tape dots (left knee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ran on 8\/1\/2010<br \/>\nThis is the longest distance I&#8217;ve done wearing my Vibram Five Fingers, KSO model. My legs felt great because the &#8220;shoes&#8221; I wore were quite light, but my big toes kinda suffered towards the tail end of the run (same familiar &#8220;hot spot&#8221; feeling where one can anticipate a blister forming). In the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/04\/long-run-training-6-71mi\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[200,225,268,269,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}