{"id":238,"date":"2009-10-02T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/10\/02\/differences-running-vibram-five-finger-after-three-weeks\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:44:31","slug":"differences-running-vibram-five-finger-after-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/10\/differences-running-vibram-five-finger-after-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences Running Vibram Five Finger After Three Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am settled in more comfortably than I could have expected after about three weeks running in my Vibram Five Finger KSO&#8217;s and have noticed the following differences for me. Here are some I can recall at this time having just run about thirty minutes ago.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> My stride is more upright and effecient<\/li>\n<li>My lower back and hamstrings aren&#8217;t tight and strained after a run.<\/li>\n<li> The part of my body that becomes tight is are my lower back calves right around   the Achilles. This stretches out as I run and is becoming noticeably stronger.<\/li>\n<li>I have a lot more spring in my step when going up steps and my instep I think it called is getting new muscles.<\/li>\n<li>My pace is nice and fast even though it seems it isn&#8217;t since the run feels so comfortable once I&#8217;m into the run.<\/li>\n<li>When I step on a branch or large stone I didn&#8217;t see in time to avoid stepping on my ankle doesn&#8217;t roil. I think this is due to the fact I don&#8217;t have a single\/solid piece of material strapped to my feet that can only go one way. My feet actually mold around it and yes its not comfortable but I&#8217;m not rolling my ankle either!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am settled in more comfortably than I could have expected after about three weeks running in my Vibram Five Finger KSO&#8217;s and have noticed the following differences for me. Here are some I can recall at this time having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/10\/differences-running-vibram-five-finger-after-three-weeks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,41,44,40,43],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-differences","tag-running","tag-three","tag-vibram-five-finger-ksos","tag-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}