For a few years now, I have been aware of the barefoot movement. I have known of its potential benefits but never fully researched them. To be honest, I thought shoes with individual toe slots looks pretty stupid and that was enough to completely turn me off them. Over a few months I saw them more and more online. Athletes like Ross Edgley and Fergus Crawly were wearing them in their instagram posts and it made me think…’if guys like this are wearing them and performing as go

Yesterday I took part in the maverick races event in Buckinghamshire. It was an absolutely fantastic event from start to finish and I loved every second of it! To date I have run no further than 17km and I have only ever done that on 2 occasions. I was nervous about running the ‘Long’ 22km route. I was confident I could get it done but I didn’t know how much it was going to hurt. The event started at 9am. We arrived at 8.15, got ready and ate some Huel and a Cliff bar before