How to avoid blisters while running barefoot?
I have started to run barefoot because no shoe suits my feet perfectly. I ran a half marathon yesterday and made my PB too, I am happy. But during the course of running I developed blisters. I enjoy the pain but I am scared that it may lead me to a bad injury, if I continue this.
So my question is, is there any tape for barefoot running? I have heard of some tape but I don't know how they refer to it.
How do they refer to it?
Or is there any better ways to avoid blisters?
I can't afford the five fingers shoe.
Please help
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I do some barefoot running, but sometimes it is too cold or too hot. In such cases I am wearing Altra Adam shoes, which are essentially loose socks - they allow me to spread my toes.
I do not have blisters.
You say that you've started running barefoot, how recently? If it's very recent, your feet are not accustomed to that sort of serious strain. No callouses have been built up, they're as soft as a baby's because of the foot coffins we wear all day long.
Start out slow, work up to the distance you can normally run while wearing shoes. Consider this a 'new workout' since you need to build up tolerance, primarily callouses and running style, where you have probably not had them in the past.
Update 1:
You said in one of your later comments that you were able to do 33km in 3 stints, so I'm going to have to assume you could do 11km at any given time. That's just shy of half of a half marathon (quarter marathon?). Essentially, you doubled your distance to reach that half marathon, where you experienced blistering. That doesn't seem all that strange to me. I know when I switched to running barefoot, the distance I was comfortable running was cut way down until I got accustomed. Granted, I'm no marathon runner and I don't pretend to be, but I went from 10-15 km to dying after 5 km.
In case that you looking for a way to protect your feet from getting blisters, you may want to run in simple sandals, something like the Tarahumara tribe uses. You can search Google images for "Tarahumara sandals". They usually made of old tires.
You can prepare them by yourself. You only need hard rubber, laces (thin rope) and tools. You can find the instructions by searching "invisible shoe" in Google.
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