Archive for September, 2009
Contest for FREE Blue Ridge Marathon entry!
As you may or may not know, I’m setting my sights on the Blue Ridge Marathon in April next year. It’s going to be my 1st barefoot marathon. The course looks spectacularly beautiful. Like forget your finish time and stop to soak it all in beautiful. Sure, there’s a hill or two. OK, there’s over [...]
Dirty, Gnarly Feet
I saw this clip on MSNBC about barefoot running this morning. Watch it if you feel your IQ needs to be knocked down a couple of notches. It’s the usual BS about glass and grody (remember grody? Ah, the 80′s). Re glass, I’d like to ask: how do you know there’s glass on the ground? [...]
The numbers are in
from the Twin City Track Club: Official time: 44:4234th out of 5074th in my age/gender group (!) Well I’m all puffed up like some deadly but delicious Japanese delicacy.
10k PR
44:55ish. I decided to go for speed instead of education (and, frankly, I wasn’t in the mood to be a spectacle), so I wore the aqua socks ($6). I felt I was definitely hitting the ground harder than I would have if barefoot, even though I really tried to focus on lifting the feet and [...]
On the rocks
Ken Bob recommends learning how to run barefoot on the rockiest, most uncomfortable terrain you can find. I’m finding there’s more to that than just “if you can do it here, you can do it anywhere.” Normally, my approach to dealing with a gravel path is to try to run on it as if I’m [...]
