{"id":241,"date":"2009-09-26T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/09\/26\/picking-up-time-on-my-runs-barefoot-alternative\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T09:47:03","slug":"picking-up-time-on-my-runs-barefoot-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/09\/picking-up-time-on-my-runs-barefoot-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking up Time on My Runs  Barefoot Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I got a couple more runs with my VFF ( Vibram Five Finger) KSO&#8217;s in since my last post including earlier this morning and my time improved again over a 30 seconds on my 4 mile run.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m starting not to worry so much about adjusting to the KSO&#8217;s and just going out concentrating on running. Thursday I was running  errands so I went and ran a bit over 4 miles at one of the local Junior College track at ARC and that felt good as well.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not quite ready to go over 4 miles yet but I think I will try an LSD (Long Slow Distance) in my KSO&#8217;s soon.<br \/>\nAs far as how I feel after the runs my back, hamstrings &amp; shins don&#8217;t feel the tightness like a ball I used to feel. The place I feel a bit of impact is my lower calves  but its just like working a muscle in the gym. During the day I notice I have more spring in my calves when going up the stairs and with my normal steps my walking stride is changing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really liking my KSO&#8217;s for running so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I got a couple more runs with my VFF ( Vibram Five Finger) KSO&#8217;s in since my last post including earlier this morning and my time improved again over a 30 seconds on my 4 mile run. I&#8217;m starting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2009\/09\/picking-up-time-on-my-runs-barefoot-alternative\/\">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":[50,31,34,26],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-barefoot-alternative","tag-kso","tag-run","tag-vibram-five-finger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}