Sidy Diallo, the author of Running Barefoot for Human Survival would like to give away a copy of his book to one lucky winner! Depending on your location, you may receive a paperback, an audio download, or an Amazon eGift Card to purchase the book. We will work with the winner on the details. If you are not the winner after this contest has run, please consider purchasing a copy of Running Barefoot for Human Survival to support a fellow BRS member and barefoot runner.


“Running Barefoot for Human Survival” is about the...

So, as we all know, last year's IBRD was a bust. With reports of Covid varients emerging around the world, this year's IBRD doesn't look very promising.

Instead, let's think of some alternative ideas practicing social distancing and how to implement those ideas. If you have any suggestions, please share below.

We have a winning 2020 IBRD tee shirt design by Dawsy that we were going to use for 2020, but since that event never took place, I plan to use his design for the first IBRD we resume in person.

IBRD takes place on Sunday, May 2, 2021!

Sevaldrud recently broke the record for the fastest barefoot half-marathon on snow or ice. The previous record was 2:16:34, a time that Dutch athlete Wim Hof ran in 2007. Sevaldrud, who goes by the name Sevald, ran a looped 21.1K course in 1:44:58, smashing Hof’s record. As he shows in his video recap of the run, though, this result didn’t come easily.

In his video, Sevald says he started barefoot running after reading Born to Run. Before reading this book, he had been struggling to find the motivation to train during the pandemic, but the idea of minimalistic...

I'll be shutting down all of the BRS Facebook Chapter pages soon, except for the main one. These pages are numerous, and they get very little traffic. They tell the world that we are not active, and that's the wrong message to send. It's really one (x many) less thing I would have to worry about if they were gone.

I'd like to be able to contact each of the people who have liked any of the BRS Facebook pages to let them know that they can join the BRS's main site and like the BRS's main Facebook page before I shut them down, and I believe that there's a way to do this by using Mobile Monkey:
https://mobilemonkey.com/blog/2018/08/how-to-send-messenger-blasts-to-page-fans Or if anyone knows of...