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  • Category: Running
  • Founded: May 25, 2001
  • Language: English
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I live in Virginia and it can get pretty cold/icy/wet and darn nasty in the winter. Last winter I ran barefoot indoors on my treadmill. Unfortunately, that is...
10 Dec 2, 2004
5:03 am

michae legault
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The addition of a Trip-n-Dip option in 2004 to Seattle's January 1 Resolution 5k Run resulted in 113 pairs of shoes and one pair of bare feet jumping into the...
1 Dec 2, 2004
4:26 am

tetsujin87@...
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I'm in an awkward stage -- running shoes feel like combat boots but I'm not ready for actually running barefoot. My soles aren't tough enough yet and my arches...
7 Dec 2, 2004
2:38 am

Joe Robinson
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Here is my promised race report from last Thursday's Erie (PA) Runner's Club Turkey Trot. There had been over 1300 pre-registered, and surprisingly few no- ...
4 Dec 1, 2004
8:46 pm

Rick Roeber
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Just a little story -- I run on the North Downs in Surrey, England and I have an interesting battle with the terrain ... This just a few miles along the ridge...
2 Dec 1, 2004
5:30 pm

Chris Runyan
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While Rick and his friends are enjoying their barefoot runs through the snow, us Pacific Coast folks can run through the chilly water at low-tide. December 12,...
2 Dec 1, 2004
2:21 am

Rick Roeber
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On Saturday I went out for a daytime run (I usually run early A.M. or at night, when its dark). I had a wonderful time, it has been cold at night, but that day...
7 Nov 30, 2004
8:02 pm

Ted McDonald
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How many people on a team? Maybe we can have a "RunningBarefoot.org" team too. During this year's 5 and 10k fun runs and marathons/halfs in my RBF singlet...
1 Nov 30, 2004
7:14 pm

tetsujin87@...
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It was a beautiful day for a run. The snowflakes were falling and the snow was piling up as I sang: (To the tune of "What a day for a daydream") What a day to...
1 Nov 30, 2004
6:43 pm

Barefoot Rick Roeber
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I remember watching a video on the 1960 Rome Olympics. The men's maraton winner from Africa won the Gold Medal running barefoot!!!! Pretty cool!!!! Mark...
2 Nov 30, 2004
6:21 pm

Ken Bob Saxton
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Is it safe to run barefoot on a treadmill? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months...
8 Nov 30, 2004
6:05 am

michae legault
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http://www.livingresource.net/rbwiki/index.php/Orange_County_Marathon My wife, Cathy, our dog, Herman, and myself have completed running the entire Orange...
1 Nov 29, 2004
6:25 pm

Ken Bob Saxton
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Great group!!!! When I was a senior at Costa Mesa High School, California I ran my best 3 mile (14:50) barefoot. I also coached cross country and track at...
1 Nov 29, 2004
4:34 pm

markraymondhoward
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Many thanks to Uncle Ken’s “so-what/big deal” casual barefooting life style, Rick’s “no-chip-seal-is-safe-from-these-bare-feet” attacks, Chris’s ...
5 Nov 29, 2004
1:14 pm

Rick Roeber
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This is something that I dread. Whether on training runs or races the rough, out of control surfaces scare me. I guess you have to deal with it. There is one...
1 Nov 29, 2004
6:05 am

tetsujin87@...
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No snow here, today. It did start out a bit cold when we arrived to pick up our numbers. And the sky was an ominous shade of dark grey. But, by the time the...
8 Nov 26, 2004
9:40 pm

Marc McLellan
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have you heard about pose tech ?? it is usefull for running barefoot, it is strange that nobody mention it so thats why i want to post about it...
8 Nov 25, 2004
4:17 am

pepe_antonio87
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Now THAT'S the kind of volunteer work I like to do!!!! I will be happy to help out. In fact, only for your SD friend, I will do EVERYTHING I can to "make"...
1 Nov 25, 2004
1:48 am

todd byers
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We got nine inches of the wet slushy variety last night. It was 34 degrees when I went out to run this afternoon. The first mile was a bit chilly, but I warmed...
9 Nov 25, 2004
1:19 am

Rick Roeber
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Think they'll ever get it, that shoes do NOT protect us from hard surfaces? http://www.active.com/story.cfm? story_id=11366&sidebar=13&category=running ...
2 Nov 24, 2004
11:39 pm

Rick Roeber
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Greetings! I'm a long-time lurker, first-time poster. I'm also a fairly new runner. I've been running (shod) on and off for the last year or so, but I really...
6 Nov 23, 2004
10:23 am

Matthew
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I have been running 2 hour runs every other day for a couple of months lol. Obviously, I am exageration but my point is that my only training sessions are long...
7 Nov 23, 2004
2:35 am

Ken Bob Saxton
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Ken - did the Todd sighting on Sunset Beach indicate if the runner identified was wearing a shirt or not? Except for the Seattle Marathon in November (next ...
2 Nov 22, 2004
9:00 pm

Ken Bob Saxton
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Fortunately, "been at this a lot longer than most of us" doesn't go very far with this group. It's funny to have been doing something for so long and not know...
1 Nov 22, 2004
7:56 pm

tetsujin87@...
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My own dog-pound dog - Lab/Gr.Shep mix - joined me for my ("our") first marathon in 1977 in Anchorage. He ran all over in the woods, down to the creeks, ...
1 Nov 22, 2004
7:54 pm

tetsujin87@...
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One of the local area sponsors of the 11/21/04 Toys for Tots 5k Fun Run around the Seattle Center was Bite Sandals whose new brochure features the company's...
3 Nov 22, 2004
7:53 pm

Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
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Here is the link to the report. http://barefootrunner.org/reports/mh04/report.htm ... Mountain Home Marathon For Kenya - November 20, 2004 A Test of Endurance ...
5 Nov 22, 2004
7:44 pm

Rick Roeber
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http://runningbarefoot.org/2004-Tour-November.shtml#AnimalTraxRun This was Herman's first race. And I'm really proud of him. He went out there and had as much,...
3 Nov 22, 2004
7:22 pm

Rick Roeber
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Hi all, My barefoot running has been pretty uneventful lately, so I haven't posted in a while, but I'm looking forward to this Thursday's Turkey Trot Race...
2 Nov 22, 2004
7:20 pm

Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
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Hi again since some people are talking about battling the cold let me ask a question: are you positive it is ok for the various joints on the foot to bear such...
29 Nov 22, 2004
3:34 am

Billy Gard
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