I just started running barefoot due to persistent lower leg problems. Those problems have since cleared up but now that winter is quickly approaching here in...
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david moore
dmoore40352000
Nov 3, 2003 8:43 pm
hey Jim, I guess your talking about the recent cold front. I live off 30h and baseline. If it is too cold for me to perform barefoot I either use a modifed...
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Larry
larrymiq
Nov 4, 2003 4:14 pm
... I can best respond to question 3 because it is a topic that continues to fascinate me. I feel that running trails barefoot for the modern man in our...
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salexrose
Nov 4, 2003 4:43 pm
I used to tape my offensive toe after that happened to me on a damp crushed stone track. After it healed and I started going untaped, it never happened again....
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jimcauthen
Nov 4, 2003 4:56 pm
... I posted a note on this subject recently. I've only run barefoot on trails about 3 times now. So far I seem to have an easier time running on trails than...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 4, 2003 5:01 pm
... Yes. Running barefoot uses muscles that you aren't used to using. It will take time to build them up. Especially the calves, which are one of the major...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 4, 2003 5:14 pm
... After barefooting for several years in the dry Southern California climate, I can say that, YES! You will experience much less of those painful doorknob...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 4, 2003 6:05 pm
... I forgot to mention, make sure you bend your knees. The easiest way to insure that your knees bend on landing, and also further minimize impact, is to lift...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 4, 2003 6:35 pm
... Stop running! At least for a day or two. Let the sore heal. My worse cut was during my first barefoot marathon. After two days of rest, I was able to run ...
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Judy Benavides
mariachiestr...
Nov 4, 2003 9:06 pm
While I don't have a problem with bunions because I tend to be barefoot 90% of the time, am I correct in assuming that they are probably created by poor...
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Jim Robbins
jimrobbins123
Nov 4, 2003 9:17 pm
Thanks for the advice Ken. I have to say, that my legs, although sore - its a "good sore" and they feel the best they have in years. Thanks for the inpiration!...
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Chris Runyan
cprunyan
Nov 4, 2003 10:51 pm
I think some people don't mind severe pain in this regard. There is a saying about suffering for fashion. Why people do this to themselves is a mystery....
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 5, 2003 6:20 pm
Yes. I believe it is nearly impossible to get bunions unless you wear shoes. They are the result of constant constriction by shoes. I was sitting in the...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 5, 2003 8:32 pm
I did a google search for "bunions" and practically every web page I looked at talked about the big toe moving out of alignment, or abnormal stress against the...
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Judy Benavides
mariachiestr...
Nov 6, 2003 5:05 pm
Ouch, they look so painful. In some of the photos, the shape of the feet look exactly like some shoes I've seen. I will definitely print some of these...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 6, 2003 5:59 pm
Ask your roommates if the insides of their shoes smell healthy after 8 hours of work or play? Walking/running is only unhealthy, if you walk/run as if you...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 6, 2003 7:36 pm
Couldn't resist this quote; "Always do wht you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Suess...
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salexrose
Nov 7, 2003 5:02 pm
If you are going to quote Dr. Seuss, I think it would be more appropriate for you to quote from his work entitled THE FOOT BOOK....
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tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
Nov 7, 2003 5:15 pm
Hey Rose - for those of us who enjoyed the mind/matter Seuss quote, and who might even use it on our own barefoot runs, but who don't have The Foot Book,...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 10, 2003 12:48 am
Scott, "Oh how many feet you meet!" -Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book Thanks to my friend, Vicki Walker, Chariperson TUPP http://www.oc.ca.gov/hca/tupp/home.htm for...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 10, 2003 1:03 am
... Isn't saying that the muscles are too weak for the work you are doing, just another way to say you are overworking them? The good news is, that with...
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mytakamineg240
Nov 10, 2003 3:43 pm
Hey, I just recently started running barefoot, and have worked up to about 1.5 miles. I usually run with shoes on for a mile or 2 and then remove my shoes at...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 12, 2003 8:38 pm
According to Gordon Pirie's first law of running; "Running with correct technique (even in prepared bare feet), on any surface, is injury free." p.6 ...
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salexrose
Nov 13, 2003 9:37 pm
I certainly did not intend to offend. It's just the title of the Foot Book by the same author seemed so appropriate. "slow feet, quick feet, well feet, sick...
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Chris Runyan
cprunyan
Nov 15, 2003 1:04 am
Last night was one of the more intense runs I've done. About five or six miles up and down a mountain in the dark with a headlamp. Ran with group of people...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 16, 2003 10:14 pm
Chris, That sounds a lot like the "Bare Buns Fun Run" for which their slogan is "Be Brave, Be Tough, Beat the Mountain in the Buff!" ...
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tim
tarsarma
Nov 18, 2003 11:33 pm
now as we down under hit the summer I have been doing a bit of running in a park down my street. The problem I am having is what we call in Oz - bindies which...
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Ken Saxton
runbarefoot
Nov 20, 2003 3:42 pm
Warning, the following is blatant advertising! Charley Robbin's Scrapbook: Running with the Best Since 1936 by Charley Robbins, RunningBarefoot.org Hall of...
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running_james
Nov 23, 2003 2:14 am
Snow ?? I run live in South Florida. Run some where between five to eight miles on the beach sand, three times a week. It's almost always warm enough to run...
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running_james
Nov 23, 2003 2:14 am
Cuts, clean, apply antiboitic, cover, keep clean, let heal. Sore calfs, streeeatch. When warm, (right after run works for me). Must be warm. Find good book....
