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  1. Straif

    Greetings From the Northern Illinois Marshlands!

    Greetings From the Northern Illinois Marshlands! By Straif I am--or rather, my feet are--a former prisoner of 30 years...
  2. Straif

    The Germany/Austria/Marburg Barefoot Running Group

    Cool guys! Maybe these pictures will help inspire my girlfriend to take the plunge! She's gotta get her feet wet!
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    Finally went into a store barefoot!

    It was the right call in my opinion. It was good not arguing with an employee just doing their job. No need to skyline yourself at the front gates of Costco when there's absolutely no need to do so. We're living in a society, after all, so each one of us can't always get what we want. That's...
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Maybe I'll do that, Sir Paul. My girlfriend's work has a public bulletin board, and I can also check local sites for 5-10ks. As an aside, I was out running a five mile route in the rain today. The weather was around 47° F. About three and a half miles into the circuit my lace snapped on my...
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Are there any other competitions that feature barefoot and minimalist footwear running? I enjoy having the competition as a way to sorta spur me along. It's like added energy when I'm out there, charting my course in my head, looking forward to plot it down in Wikimapia so I can post it on the...
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    I'm out. :confused: Going to actually enjoy running, thank you very much.
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Wait a second, these runs don't follow the same guidelines as the Toes on the Roads competitions? Is minimalist footwear not allowed? Like my huaraches from XeroShoes?
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Wow. Even in the Marines I never did runs this cold. I was stationed in the Mojave desert (29 palms), so, rarely did it ever get as cold as here in northern Illinois. Already, this seems to be proving quite the cold year! Especially for those of us in this Winter Challenge! I gotta admit...
  9. Straif

    how many of you have foot fetichism?

    The only feet for me are Peggy Hill's. :rolleyes:
  10. Straif

    Quinoa ?

    Human's are inherently dualistic by our very nature. I can't even comprehend what it would be like not to compare everything with everything else. I imagine a world where we wouldn't or couldn't compare things would be like something completely diff-- ah, there I go again...
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    Finally went into a store barefoot!

    Oh dear. I'm sorry you misconstrued my opinion. I was referring more to the idea of it being a futile effort attempting to threaten a mega-corporation to take your business elsewhere based solely on them enforcing their own written policies. I don't really understand what you're trying to...
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    Finally went into a store barefoot!

    Interesting. The feeling I've always had whenever I've set foot in a Wal-Mart is that they could care less about what individual customers think, especially when it comes to customer service. I wish anyone a healthy dose of luck if they have to take matters to the level of writing a letter...
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Never thought I'd see so many people wishing for cold weather. We truly have our own class of crazy, methinks. :cool:
  14. Straif

    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    Ah, sorry, I was referring to imperial units of measure. English standard units of measure. I agree with you, Fahrenheit is a rather silly measurement system founded on trivial principles by today's standards. Long live Emperor Celsius!
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    I didn't intend for my comment to get political. :D I get why the metric system has become so favored in this golden age of "Science and Industry;" it makes sense for sure, us evolving to possess, naturally, ten-digits on our hands, which ultimately led us to settle upon the decimal system...
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    5th Annual Winter Challenge

    It's all just a relative form of measurement with its own set of rules and significance, as much as its counterpart. I also find it funny how people equally knock the use of imperial units or the English units of measure when in fact they possess some very interesting correlations with not...
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    And the SEPTEMBER TOES ON ROADS winner is …….

    Haha, I really enjoy that picture, Sir Paul. Congrats to UK for beating those sneaky French from last month! Still reeling from that surprise mileage drop at the very end of August by Team France ;). Regardless, and interesting tactic I suppose. Congrats to everyone who does this...
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    GIVEAWAY - Tarahumara "Chabochi" Sandals! October Giveaway Expires Wednesday, Oct 8, Noon EST

    Me like huaraches. I doth toss my hat into the ring.
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    X-Dog Ole's Assault

    Lukas looks like he is about to heel strike in those VFF's in the first Finishing picture there. Good job on the gravel, it's been getting colder up here, and I haven't been strictly barefoot as much outside lately, so my soles have regressed a little and are quietly cringing at some of those...
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    Dr. Lieberman Strikes Again

    Without a doubt this is true, I imagine most of us recently converted barefooters can testify to this. By recently converted I mean, as an adult, seeing the virtues of going barefoot whereas perhaps not so long ago it wasn't even a thought in our minds. Since June, when I started going...