Blog entries by BFWendyBird
My First Barefoot Race in Korea
After all my frantic worries, I made it to the race area a little after 8am after almost 3 hours of travel time, ugh. I found my group, put on my bib, sorted my gear, and headed for the bathroom and gear bag check with about 35 minutes to go. The bathroom line...
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” Thomas Alva Edison
Followingmy MRI and visit with the orthopedic surgeon, the final diagnosis is better than I had feared. It is not a ligament rupture; it is a plain stress fracture of the Navicular and possibly also the...
Saturday, July 24th, I finally got to meet Rich Walkden and his wife, Anne! They flew down from Vermont to run the Operation Homefront 5K on Fort Story, VA with me. On Friday, when they arrived in Norfolk, Rusty and I just happened to be at the airport picking up our rental car so we got to meet...
"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration." **Lewis Carroll**
Saturday morning was gray, dripping, and a steamy 80 degrees. I needed to get in a long run, but the thought of 10...
Yorktown Battlefield Independence Day 8K
"Luck is being ready for the chance" **J. Frank Doble**
July 4th arrived with spectacular weather and the promise of a fantastic race day that did not disappoint! My goal for this race was to stay ahead of a 9 mpm pace and place in the top ten so I...
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell." **Brian W. Aldiss**
To celebrate my one year anniversary of barefoot running, I'd like to share my first barefoot blog entry. I've come a long way in the last year and the trail that...
I have been waiting a year for the 2nd annual Bull Island 4 miler in my current home town of Poquoson, VA. In 2009, at the race's inaugural event, I was just starting to feel good about racing. I had run my first sub 30 5K and had been working all winter on extending my endurance for my first...
“There's nothing neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
One of the first things a barefoot runner is asked by any shod runner they encounter is, “What about glass!?!” I admit, I was a bit worried about this myself when I decided to try...
I had a fun run today. It was a fund raiser for the High School track team so lots and lots of teenagers. Warming up on the track, I had the usual funny looks and questions, “Are you racing barefoot??” YUP! Early in the race I got stuck behind about 6 teenage girls running shoulder...
In April of 2009, I joined my husband's office team in the American Cancer Society 24-Hour Relay for Life. Hubby and I walked a lap (3.75 miles) on Saturday then went back in the wee hours of Sunday and I ran 3 more. I decided then that I would be back next year for 35 miles and someday I would...
The challenge today will be summing up a 5 hour race in a blog entry that won't take too long to read!
After some scares with the extended forecast, the weather was absolutely perfect. Over 50 when we started and in the mid to upper 60's by the end. Sun shining, not too much wind, just enough...
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill
We planned this trip months and months ago. My youngest daughter and I would spend Christmas with my parents in Thailand while my oldest was working at Disney World and my Husband was...
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” Leo Tolstoy
The Outer Banks Marathon weekend was amazing! Almost a year ago, I started planning this trip with some of my running friends. In that year, we connected across the states via facebook and became an...
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
**Thomas Foxwell Buxton **
It has been a weird couple of weeks. After my calf injury, I didn't run for a couple of days and then went back to my training plan and ran 5 miles on Saturday, three of them at HM race...
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." **Mark Twain**
Running has been one of the best avenues I've ever taken. It has made me stronger, it has made me healthier, and it has...
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
**Mahatma Gandi**
I had a fantastic run today. It wasn't long (only 3 miles), it wasn't fast (actually, I didn't check so it might have been), but I was focused and it was beautiful outside with the birds and...
I'm going to go back and post race reports or particular blogs that talk about barefoot running for any newbies looking in :-)
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the...