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I’ve not been able to run for a while - mainly due to a bout of flu that I’ve been told can last a month 
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In the meantime I’ve been reading up on barefoot running and even found a medical site (The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online) that advises running barefoot to help with plantar fasciitis.
Most medical advice I’ve seen (or been given) for PF is not to go barefoot, ever. It’s good to find something I’ve learned by listening to my body, being offered as medical opinion.
On the 5 minute barefoot section of today’s run I still had a feeling of pounding in my heels. I took Mark’s advice and I tried leaning forwards. It did work, but at a cost.
I felt like I was having to lean a long way to get the sensation to stop. I thought I’d mastered the lean with my progress in chi running, but obviously not - my heart rate went sky high again.
I know I run slow but it seems I’m running too slow to be able to run barefoot for any length of time (even 5 minutes is too much).
If I’m going to give barefoot running a good test, I’m going to have to take the advice of the experts and start my beginners running program again from scratch.
