Today our fall really began.....it had rained a lot tonight and the earth was soaking wet and cold and I decided on this beautiful saturday morning to run...
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tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
Oct 1, 2005 10:26 am
Admittedly weird, but some similar race photos seeming to indicate my own heel strike (even though I'm quite confident that I'm ball-heel-balling all the way),...
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mark_langley
Oct 1, 2005 11:56 am
But look at the apparent incline... The healstrikes appear to be on a declining downhill slope, and the more midfoot strikes on level or uphill slope. (Some...
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Terra Stewart Koval
fungi_fanatic
Oct 1, 2005 2:41 pm
I'm in! T....
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Richard Geller
rgeller3403
Oct 1, 2005 2:59 pm
beautiful post......
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tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
Oct 1, 2005 3:38 pm
Maybe so, but watching KenBob literally fly downhill in his trail running, it seems his forward-leaning torso is pretty much still perpendicular to the plane...
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Barefoot Rick
rroeber
Oct 1, 2005 4:00 pm
What can I say to all your comments regarding my form? Do I heel strike sometimes? I am sure of that! However, if you discount the pictures where I am carrying...
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Barefoot Ted
wildmountain...
Oct 1, 2005 6:20 pm
Howdy Rick and others I have no idea if my form is good or bad. I am still trying to find the best way to run, the way where I can be fast and avoid injuries....
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Michael Atkinson
unipsycho6
Oct 1, 2005 6:53 pm
a few weeks ago, I posted here saying that my foot was broken from a stress fracture. I went in to the doctor yesterday, and he said that I have about two to...
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tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
Oct 1, 2005 7:01 pm
In addition to the three pairs of shoes on the Cover of the October 2005 Northwest Runner, a pair of bare feet appear under the caption, "Shoes, Shoes,...
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Barefoot Rick
rroeber
Oct 1, 2005 7:09 pm
Juat as well, Jon. Running barefoot, imho, will never become a mainstream choice. I am just glad to be part of the few, the proud, the running barefooters! BR ...
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yannipapastavrou
yannipapasta...
Oct 1, 2005 8:37 pm
Hi Friends, Had a great adventure at the BBC in Bristol, UK this morning. The interviewer asked some intelligent questions and I think I put across some good...
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tetsujin87@...
tetsujin87
Oct 1, 2005 8:57 pm
THat is such a good comment BR; just when I was thinking that we had become mainstream. Although Martin and his article may be an example of a last remaining...
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sanjay5goel
Oct 1, 2005 10:55 pm
I have been having plantar fasciitis since early this summer - started sometime around May 05. I have been going to an ART (Active Release Technique) expert...
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Tom Lusch
tomlusch
Oct 1, 2005 11:18 pm
Sanjay, I haven't dealt with PF, but I have certainly dealt with major calf- strain issues. Having encountered this injury for the second time in two years is...
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Ryan - Barefoot in Va...
ardydub
Oct 1, 2005 11:37 pm
I think you would get back into it the same way you originally got into it. Start off v-e-r-y slowly and gently, short little runs, pay attention to your...
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Ryan - Barefoot in Va...
ardydub
Oct 1, 2005 11:46 pm
I suffered from increasingly bad plantar faciitis for about 1 1/2 years. In fact, this is what got me to discover barefoot running. One of the best things I...
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fast2457
Oct 2, 2005 12:20 am
Hi There! Don't go back and forth. I broke my foot doing that! Either go barefoot to start and stick with it or remain shod. Remember how much it hurt? You...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 1:54 am
That's how I carry my laundry basket to the laundry room in my condo complex! http://www.runningbarefoot.org/? ...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 2:00 am
Cadence, cadence, cadence. The speed of the step, not the speed of the body that matters. In Los Angeles Marathon, running/walking with my wife, during the hot...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 2:46 am
Thursday evening, I finished my last "long" run before I will run Long Beach Marathon on October 16th. Since I had an out-patient procedure on Friday morning,...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 2:49 am
You mean like this? http://www.runningbarefoot.org/RunningBarefootOrg.png Have fun, -barefoot ken bob ... transfer...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 2:53 am
Not with the millions of dollars spent to convince the mainstream that they "MUST" wear shoes, either for protection, bad running form, or fashion! Have fun, ...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 3:00 am
Just a difference of point-of-view, or semantics, or something, I realize... But from where I sit, Running Barefoot didn't cause the injury, years of...
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Barefoot Rick
rroeber
Oct 2, 2005 3:57 am
Question: Should I be running barefoot? Answer: If you have to ask, probably not. Reminds me of when a kid is told by his or her mother to eat all of their...
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Barefoot Rick
rroeber
Oct 2, 2005 4:05 am
Yanni - Hopefully, they could put it on a Windows Media file for you so you could share it with us. BR ... was on ... from...
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Michael Atkinson
unipsycho6
Oct 2, 2005 4:16 am
well, yeah, I guess it depends on how you phrase it...if I hadn't worn shoes for the first 16 years of my life, I wouldn't have broken my foot now. so...
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George Kerkhoven
kerkhoven
Oct 2, 2005 6:35 am
Well Rick.................I was writing and preparing the same message............interesting, seems to me a case of synchronicity..........I will come soon...
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Debra Broughton
debroughton
Oct 2, 2005 8:27 am
Sanjay I have suffered with PF on and off for the last few years. These exercises did the trick for me ...
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Ken Bob Saxton
runbarefoot
Oct 2, 2005 9:45 am
Just another silly analogy that popped into my head after waking up in the middle of the night. One day, I got this abrasion on my chest. I was running,...
