LAKE PLACID — Most people will never run a marathon, or even a half marathon. But one Capital Region man ran a half marathon on Sunday while wearing no shoes.

Bill Hoffman finished the Lake Placid Half Marathon running barefoot. Hoffman finished the 13.1-mile race 42nd overall in 1 hour, 40 minutes and 55.9 seconds. The Clifton Park resident said he couldn’t run until less than a decade ago, but now that he goes without shoes, he has finished dozens of ultra marathons. To continue reading, please visit......

From Dr. Mark Cucuzzella:

Fun to be on the my friend Floris Gierman’s show The Extramilest.

See story we did on Floris a couple years back on Getting Fast by Running Slow: http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2017/08/20/floris-gierman-aka-florrest-gump-fast-running-slow/ Tune into his amazing show.

Here is our episode. Check out the extensive show notes and links. Thanks Floris for the privilege!: https://extramilest.com/blog/mark-cucuzzella/...

By having experienced my first half marathon approximately 8 months back in the cold & pouring rain I decided to sign up for another one this Spring –hopefully giving me a much better chance of not having to do battle with the weather!

The Tewkesbury half was the event I chose –it attracts around 1000 entrants, so it’s not massive, but at the same time is plenty large enough to get lost in the crowd…

I’d read some reasonable reports of previous year’s races so was actually looking forward to it (I normally get a bit nervous at these kind of things –no idea why, it’s entirely unnecessary, but I just do for some reason). Persuaded my partner to run it with me, which helps (she runs in VFFs). We decided to stick together throughout the course (moral support & all that!).

So we travelled down the day prior to the event & stayed overnight, which was definitely...