Born to Run<\/a> and LOVED IT.\u00a0 For various reasons, one of which stems from the book, I’ve started running barefoot, in a field near my house, once a week or so.\u00a0 Brian’s told me to go get some Vibram Five Finger barefoot shoes, but I just can’t get myself to spend the $, and I haven’t needed to, because the field is really soft and safe.)<\/p>\nYesterday, I was going to be running about 11, and if I don’t run early in the day, I lose my motivation quickly.\u00a0 I was meeting a friend for lunch, and I really didn’t want to run, but I thought I should just do something, anything.\u00a0 So I thought, hey… maybe I should try barefoot running on the smooth, blacktop paved Lakeshore trail, and then I’ll just run for a super short run, since I’m trying to gradually adjust my legs\/feet to the biomechanical differences of running without shoes.\u00a0 It was hot – 92 by my car thermometer, and as soon as I took a few steps on the trail, I thought, man, this is really hard and painful on my feet.\u00a0 Just suck it up… you’re only going out 5 minutes and coming back 5 minutes.\u00a0 So I kept painfully plodding along, until I hit the shade.\u00a0 My feet HURT, and not just from the hard pavement.\u00a0 I realized they were blistered from the heat of the blacktop.\u00a0 And I had to run back to the car.\u00a0 You seriously would have heard me saying, “What an idiot” to myself over and over if you’d been near me.\u00a0 I was so embarrassed I’d made such a stupid decision.\u00a0 Sure enough, back at the car, my feet were so painful, and walking to lunch (in my socks\/shoes) felt like I was still walking through hot coals.\u00a0 I can only laugh now.\u00a0 Definitely learned my lesson.\u00a0 I drained the blisters last night, and they’re 75% better today.\u00a0 Hoping to run tomorrow… with shoes.\u00a0 And yes, maybe soon I’ll splurge and get myself some Vibrams.\u00a0 But until then, I’ll only barefoot run on the safety of the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So with the kids at school, I’ve got so much I could be doing. Cleaning, projects, errands… But this week, I’ve used my *favorite* procrastination technique… concocting lovely things in the kitchen! Here’s a bullet list of the highlights: Peaches & Cream Muffins – brought peaches back from South Carolina last week.\u00a0 Awesome.\u00a0 I love, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","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\/pkzLf-L6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}