barefootcaleb

So, after about a year of barefoot running, reading a lot, and being on this site I feel like I have a very good base knowledge about barefoot running. I've even read a lot of the heavy, scientific articles about it, but that doesn't seem to help when you have about 10 minutes and a couple of...

Thursday of last week I suffered my first injury while running barefoot. I was running around my college campus, was excited about the beautiful weather, and also felt good knowing that I only had three miles to run, and then an easy 7 on saturday (this was a recovery week for my marathon...

First let me say that I love Paul McCartney! That may be a bit too much, but the fact is, I really like the Beatles, my wife really likes the Beatles, we got engaged at the Imagine mosaic in Central Park. I say all of this first because I am about to use the name Paul McCartney in a slightly...

This winter I ran a half marathon barefoot. It was much colder than I had expected and after running through many water stops where water covered the ground I wanted to stop, but decided to push on. Around mile 8 or 9 I started to get this sensation that my toes were curling up under my feet. I...

I know this sounds like a weird question, and the more I reread it the more I want to change it, but I'm feeling particularly lazy today and don't want to scroll up. I was running on an indoor track today wearing Vibrams. I had played around with the idea of going barefoot on the track, but had...

Do we need to have a good beard to be a good barefoot runner? Yes. Am I in any position to be making universal statements like this? No. I started barefoot running in May of last year, in June I was able to participate in a BF KenBob workshop. I was hooked. Not only was his demeanor and...