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There are forest fires up north, so the whole city is clouded in smoke. I was hesitant to go running, but the smoke made no difference in the end.. except the trails were all mine!

August 19, 2010

Distance: 10KM

Time: 55:30

Pace: 5:33

Footwear: Vibram Five Fingers - Sprint

Notes: I'll start off with the good news - this was my longest minimalist run to date (the previous one I thought was 10k.. yeah that was more like 8.5 or 9. Doh). And overall the run felt great, I'm sure I could have kept on trucking if I had wanted to.The bad news.. my feet are still not ready for running on gravel paths, even in my Five Fingers. Some of those rocks are wildly painful. I'm going to blame my terrible pace on the unavoidable sections of gravel on the path. It's too bad really, because the gravel trails are right in the beautiful river valley... hopefully with a bit more toughening up I'll have a better experience next time. Oh! Also at one point I had this terrible stabbing pain in my right foot, it felt like a tendon had ripped... but 30 seconds of walking and it was gone. Odd.