Back in September I met Christopher McDougal at the Bird-in-Hand 5k. After meeting him and reading his book, Born To Run, I really started thinking about this whole running barefoot thing. Four years ago I bought Fila skele toes. I tried walking in them and even running in them and just didn't like it. It hurt my feet. After my run yesterday I stopped by the beach to take a few photos. While I was standing there, a runner stopped and was watching the dolphins with me. I looked down at his feet and saw he was barefoot. I said how do you run barefooted? He said it's not bad on the sand. He then told me I should just start by walking. After a few more minutes of chatting with him he was off and it got me thinking. Before I went to bed I decided to get up and go walk/run on the beach.
My alarm was set for 6:30am. Got up drank a cup of coffee and ate some breakfast and headed out. It was really weird leaving the house without shoes. I kept stopping and thinking I'm forgetting something, oh wait my shoes! It's .34 miles from my house to the sand. The walk to the beach was just as I expected, it hurt. I think I need to go to the Dollar Store and get a cheap pair of flip flops just to walk to and from the beach.
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| No shoes!! |
The plan was to just walk and see how it felt to run. I wore my watch just for tracking the distance. I started out walking then slowly running. Once I got to the Cocoa Beach Pier, which is 1/2 mile from my street I decided to sprint. I felt like a little kid again. I was free to splash in the waves and just run. I have been so worried about my time and pace lately that it's kinda taking the fun out of running. But this morning I was just having fun and remembered why I love to run. I'm not fast BUT that's ok. People on the beach were looking at me like I'd lost my damn mind. It was awesome!! You know you're having fun when people look at you funny.
I sprinted until I couldn't breath, which wasn't very far. Then I'd slow down catch my breath and just watch the waves. I stopped took photos, even sent a few texts. I had fun!!! I ended up running to where my husband and I got married. Turned around and ran back. On the way back I did the same thing, run fast then run slow and enjoy. I did get brave and I tried to run in the soft sand. HOLY CRAP THAT FREAKING HURTS! What a great leg workout!
Once I got done with the 4 miles of running, I took several photos then decided to walk a 1/2 mile in the soft sand. That hurts your feet from the seashells and is a killer leg workout!!
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