Go ahead. Start a conversation with a barefoot runner about barefoot running. I dare you. Then stand back and listen. No, don't try to get away. We're here to HELP. Where are you going? You need to be SAVED. TRUST us.
Actually, we're not all like that, although I did almost get thrown out of a semi-formal Christmas party Friday night for encouraging guests to touch the bottom of my feet. And as I've thought about it recently, there are actually several different types of barefoot runners. Exactly eight types. And since I collect personalities like others collect human skin, I figured I'd take a shot at drawing a picture of each. In words. Here goes:
Barefoot Running Personality #1: Exhuberant Eddie
Eddie loves new ideas and will try anything once...sometimes twice if the scarring isn't too bad.. He's had fourteen life changing moments...in just the last six months. In college Eddie switched majors five times, eventually dropping out after betting his second semester tuition money on a horse named You Go Girl. He's started several internet businesses, the last one failing due to a lack of gambling interest in professional Shoots & Ladders. He's holding down a job at the bowling alley so he can save enough money to walk the entire length of the Amazon, just like that guy on CNN.
Eddie recently finished reading Born To Run and immediately threw away every shoe he owned. He ran barefoot for the first time just a week ago, and instead of starting with a careful 200 meters, he went a full 5k. Eddie thinks of his bleeding and blistered feet as a trophy, and today he'll try to run 20k, though he's never run further than 10k in shoes.
Eddie's already told everyone he knows that barefoot running will save the world from certain catastrophe, and he doesn't realize he's annoying the hell out of his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend. Eddie's friends are planning an intervention after the Smirnoff Naked Toes epsiode at the party Thursday night.
Eddie's Soon-To-Be-Ex-Girlfriend
The Top Of Foot Pain (TOPF) Eddie is experiencing is not a concern because he knows he's a hell of an athlete and barefoot running is the safest thing he could ever do. Without shoes, his goal is now a three hour marathon...six weeks from now.
Up next: Barefoot Running Personality #2: Involved Irene
*Posted here at BRSand at www.runbarefooteurope.blogspot.com
Actually, we're not all like that, although I did almost get thrown out of a semi-formal Christmas party Friday night for encouraging guests to touch the bottom of my feet. And as I've thought about it recently, there are actually several different types of barefoot runners. Exactly eight types. And since I collect personalities like others collect human skin, I figured I'd take a shot at drawing a picture of each. In words. Here goes:
Barefoot Running Personality #1: Exhuberant Eddie
Eddie loves new ideas and will try anything once...sometimes twice if the scarring isn't too bad.. He's had fourteen life changing moments...in just the last six months. In college Eddie switched majors five times, eventually dropping out after betting his second semester tuition money on a horse named You Go Girl. He's started several internet businesses, the last one failing due to a lack of gambling interest in professional Shoots & Ladders. He's holding down a job at the bowling alley so he can save enough money to walk the entire length of the Amazon, just like that guy on CNN.
Eddie recently finished reading Born To Run and immediately threw away every shoe he owned. He ran barefoot for the first time just a week ago, and instead of starting with a careful 200 meters, he went a full 5k. Eddie thinks of his bleeding and blistered feet as a trophy, and today he'll try to run 20k, though he's never run further than 10k in shoes.
Eddie's already told everyone he knows that barefoot running will save the world from certain catastrophe, and he doesn't realize he's annoying the hell out of his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend. Eddie's friends are planning an intervention after the Smirnoff Naked Toes epsiode at the party Thursday night.
Eddie's Soon-To-Be-Ex-Girlfriend
The Top Of Foot Pain (TOPF) Eddie is experiencing is not a concern because he knows he's a hell of an athlete and barefoot running is the safest thing he could ever do. Without shoes, his goal is now a three hour marathon...six weeks from now.
Up next: Barefoot Running Personality #2: Involved Irene
*Posted here at BRSand at www.runbarefooteurope.blogspot.com
