Quote Originally Posted by indigoiis View Post
Didn't run today because I rode all the way in at a good clip. Plus, Pilates last night was a killer!

So, I was looking at the site for the trail race I am running in two weeks (here in RI - 8 miles), and checked the stats from last year. 250 runners, the winning time being something like 53 minutes. There were only about 15 women total. The best female time was 1:05. The last runner came in at 1:45.

I did this same trail last weekend in VFFs in 1:33. Now granted I did take my time, because I was tentative with the new VFFs, and stopped to pet a dog or two. But I am worried, because will shoes really make that much of a difference with my time?

I am wondering if I should go out and do the trail this weekend in my trail shoes, or should I do another trail? I would like to be more middle-of-the-pack time-wise, and considering so few women participate, to be able to win in my age group! ;P

Maybe I shouldn't worry, and just run it and have fun.
Anyhow, that's what's going on in my head. Maybe I shouldn't have checked those times!
I am an information junkie - I would run the trail in my trail shoes and VFFs both and see what the difference is. Though, it's likely you couldn't JUST run in your trail shoes since we know your VFFs improve your running posture, it might be useful to know for racing, and for the last one or two runs leading up to a race.