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  • Founded: May 25, 2001
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Have any other barefoot runners completed this course?  This will be my first out-of-town barefoot race.  I can handle pretty much anything the road has to...
17 Sep 7, 2012
3:27 pm

mz5771
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Yesterday I ran the heart of America marathon, in Columbia Missouri. This was my first official barefoot marathon, something I wanted to get done before...
5 Sep 5, 2012
4:07 pm

Maitreya Maziarz
mightymait
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I've discovered a line of shoes, that don't have a heel drop or zero heel drop, but where the heel is actually lower than the ball of the foot: ...
2 Sep 3, 2012
9:45 am

Tracy Longacre
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Become a Famous Barefoot Runner at Barefoot Ken Bob's Regular Run and Play-Fun-Shop 2012 September 08 Saturday 9am-11pm Inlet Drive at Freshwater Circle (in...
2 Aug 31, 2012
11:04 pm

Curt Busse
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Hi everyone, I am new to running, (still walk/run intervals) and went through 3 pairs of expensive running shoes in the past 6 months. ALL hurt my feet and...
15 Aug 30, 2012
7:48 pm

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Is anyone else following the cross-country barefoot run by Rae Heim? Her story is an interesting and inspiration one! http://flavors.me/raeainslee...
6 Aug 28, 2012
10:36 am

Tracy Longacre
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For about the past 3 or 4 months, a very old ankle sprain chose to flare up after being dormant for nearly 25 years. My left ankle started getting stiff and...
1 Aug 27, 2012
7:37 pm

rdwhitaker2012
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A friend of mine told me yesterday that modern humans need to wear cushy supportive shoes because of the hard surfaces (wood floors, cement everywhere,...
8 Aug 26, 2012
12:31 am

Marcel Cattin
fendent
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Hello. I'm from the UK. I started running 6 or so years ago in trainers, suffered for ages with shin splints and became ever more curious about barefoot...
2 Aug 25, 2012
6:12 pm

Marcel Cattin
fendent
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In the September, 2012 issue of Running Times (p.9) Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia is asked if she has "heard about the movement advocating barefoot running for...
4 Aug 21, 2012
10:57 pm

Curt Busse
fmotf
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Maybe you are interested in that and maybe you would support Sanna Almstedt on Barefoot Run. Yours olimunich "Charity Barefoot solo Transeuropa run (4100 km in...
1 Aug 21, 2012
1:40 pm

olimunich@...
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I guess *this* explains why I've been passed over for promotion. :) ...
6 Aug 21, 2012
5:41 am

rdwhitaker2012
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First, thank you all for the outstanding advice you've given me over the last year as I've learned to run barefoot. While "find something sharper to run on"...
4 Aug 16, 2012
3:18 pm

sls1j
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An 11 year old female cheetah ran 100 meters in 5.95 seconds - breaking her prior land speed record she set in 2009 of 6.13 seconds. One of the factors in a...
3 Aug 13, 2012
5:45 am

Jan Hetherington
feldyjan
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something thats not so speedy is the forum .  megabite hungry, resource intensive and sluggish. and clicked on discussions need you to go through hurdles to...
1 Aug 13, 2012
4:23 am

jon lp
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BF'd 4.25 miles at Castle Rock Park in Walnut Creek CA early yesterday morning ... a lovely place and I can tell by how good I felt afterward and feel this...
1 Aug 12, 2012
4:04 pm

Robert
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Hey everyone, no doubt this has been asked ad-nauseum however in my search of the forum I couldn't find anything that really helped me. Perhaps somebody could...
5 Aug 11, 2012
7:35 am

teamredheads
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This subject (running on empty) was already discussed here. Now it is on Runners World: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/1,7120,s6-238-267--14388-0,00.html ...
5 Aug 6, 2012
8:37 pm

Maria
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Is being barefoot part of the secret of Jamaican runners? You can see some children running barefoot here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KRN63qA5FE Adolfo...
1 Aug 6, 2012
7:35 pm

Adolfo Neto
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I celebrated my 60th birthday with a pleasant run from the Conquistador Hotel to Seven Seas beach (Puerto Rico) and back. Being barefoot sure simplifies the...
1 Aug 2, 2012
1:13 am

Curt Busse
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http://squirtingteacher.com/wp-admin/zpognsd.html?eue=exonly...
10 Aug 1, 2012
2:53 pm

rdwhitaker2012
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"Bikila may have been on to something," said Carey Rothschild, an instructor of physical therapy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando who...
1 Jul 29, 2012
9:30 pm

Adolfo Neto
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Some new research on barefoot running requiring less oxygen than shod. It doesn't look as if this has yet been published in a journal, and it will be...
6 Jul 29, 2012
12:06 pm

piggieria@...
mariabl
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Were they barefoot? (not even I am that stupid) http://news.yahoo.com/21-burned-walk-over-hot-coals-robbins-event-202003508.html...
48 Jul 28, 2012
8:56 pm

remisi2002
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FYI... http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Olympic-memories-Barefoot-Bruce-original-Forrest/story-16595884-detail/story.html...
1 Jul 27, 2012
1:54 am

shoelessly2
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Hi folks, Weird question here. I run on a pretty good trail (sometimes off trail) on a nature reserve frequented by Armadillos, and they have crossed my path...
4 Jul 25, 2012
3:40 am

mz5771
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One nice thing about recovering from an injury is that you become super aware of your body and posture. Even thought I have been running barefoot for over 2...
1 Jul 25, 2012
2:36 am

Henry Chan
barefoot.henry
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I think I have a sprained big toe. It actually isn¹t the toe part, but the metatarsel big bone below it. It does get a pounding on the pavement when ...
5 Jul 24, 2012
9:14 pm

Barefoot Tatman
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Went out this morning (my 73rd birthday) and BF'd 4 miles with mild hills, through broken glass and hot coals. No. just kidding about the coals and glass, the...
2 Jul 24, 2012
3:14 pm

tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
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No need to fear broken glass, or anything else even people in shoes don't like to step in, as long as you look where you're stepping. As for occasional...
2 Jul 22, 2012
2:52 pm

ross alloway
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