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Odd, isn't it . . . come across someone after or even while they are running/jogging/walking and ask them: "So how goes/went the run," and almost without fail they glance at a watch, reciting a displayed digital time/distance.
Odd, isn't it . . . ?
When the question is posed to me, I respond...
About 5 years ago:
I simply took off my shoes and decided to remember how to walk (then jog) barefoot.
Unlike many, I’ve still never read “Born To Run” consider the catalyst for modern minimalist/barefoot running.
As an avid runner of nearly 40 years I had accumulated the persistent leg/knee...
* Below is a prose piece I wrote on my website http://www.runitbare.com/
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Stop Bullying Nature
When did running become a stupid endeavor?
When did runners (or other natural trail users) decide that “natural trails” need to be modified in such a way that they are...
Thought I'd share a link to Iowa PBS on a small feature they did about barefoot running. Truthfully I wasn't even sure how they found me, however through emails with the PBS Iowa Outdoors Producer we finally met and I spoke of what barefoot running/jogging/walking means to me.
Thought I'd...
thus - they spoke . . . (through the voice-box of its human servant)
thou are too wear shoes,
thou
are too lace upon your feet burdens of synthetic leathers and toxic plastics: toxins, molded in far away lands by faceless servants to un-controlled consumerism.
thou are too wear shoes,
thou...
BAREFOOT encourages you to remember what we are born with, this innateness, a simple beauty, a clean appreciation for what our design evolved as – to what our body/mind is, to what we are capable of doing . . .
"we tend to be a society of steps and plans
summaries
outlines
objectives
volumes...
I wrote this many years ago... and then last year overlay-ed it onto a photo of mine. I decided to post it here as a POSITIVE feedback to "bare as running" comment in my earlier post: barefoot . . . re-thought. My take is a bit different, yet along the same vein. Run for the beauty of the run as...
“Wear Shoes,” is usually the comment mentioned – as, if barefoot was an issue?
walking/running/living - barefoot:
“how dare they take-off their shoes,” recite [those] who Boardrooms remind them of how their mortgages are paid.
“SHOE-them, numb their senses,” [they]:
repeat
repeat
repeat...
appreciate the moment
absorb into the skin: views seen, sights smelled [feel] wordless chatter – sentences constructed of random energy
take-off your shoes
appreciate –
melting into your soul what oil-infused soles will never embrace
appreciate the moment –
unrehearsed
untamed...
Barefoot – has forgotten who “IT” is, [forgotten] how to appreciate the simplicity of why many initially returned to a natural walking/running of feet bare. Barefoot has/is getting lost in the sterilized text of “How To” books or “Training” books and the ever-present “Guide” books. Barefoot is...
cheating just a bit - I'll add a entry here that I lifted from my personal blog site "runitbare.com" As a barefoot runner AND a artist/writer living in NE Iowa, running barefoot around here is akin to attaching a sign to my bald head exclaiming . . . FREAK! so hopefully you will enjoy my little...