Proven: running barefoot is faster than shod (and/or we don't get slower between 18 and 40).

Part of this is poached from the "Let's have your PR's" thread.

Ran my first competitive 5k since highschool (late 80's) this morning. Race for the Cure down on the waterfront in Portland. My wife, daughter and I ran it in memory of a dear friend who passed away at a very young age recently from breast cancer. While I was running I asked her for help and man, was she there with me.

I PR'd by a minute in 17:36. Never ran that fast in high school and now at 40 and truly BF I have done it and I'm over the moon.
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So I'm left to conclude that 1. Running barefoot is faster than shod. and/or 2. We do NOT get slower between the ages of 18 and 40.

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congrats man. i always knew you were fast but that is pretty damn fast. i hope to one day stay just far enough behind you in a race to see you the whole way through. that is my race goal! by the way, on speed. i've read that men peak at 32 but you can be as fast as you were at 18 until you turn 64. you've got plenty of time to win quite a few more races.
 
Thanks amigo. :D Funny thing is that I'm feeling like I want to take a break from races now. Or at least give the hard running a rest for a while, just go cruise a bit. I didn't know that about peaking either. I thought we were at supposed to be at our fastest in our mid or late 20's then it was downhill from there. Glad that is a bunch of bs!
 
Thanks Dan!

I've copied this from another thread:

Well I'll take the age division win anyway.

Doubt has been cast on the validity of the times by the gps that Oregonian blogger Joe Dudman was wearing. His watch clocked the course at 2.94 miles instead of 3.1. I'm kind of gutted but Joe says to take the PR because his watch is not the last word.

If his gps distance was right I have to calculate my time as 18:35 which is what I remember as my approximate PR from high school in 1987.

As for Run like Hell in October, I think we should all run together as a clan of cave men/women. What do you think?
 

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