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  1. Ragnar Relay and frustrated at a "barefoot runner"

    So I am coming here because you all will understand. So the short version of the story is that I got a last minute invite to be a runner for a Ragnar Relay NW passage race. I did not know anyone on the team nor did they know me. (for the long version you can check out my race repot on my blog...
  2. marathon training

    I think there is some good advice here. I have used several plans from Higgins to others to make it up myself stuff. But these days my time is my biggest limiter. I have a huge base and lots of experience so I seem to be able to pull it off if I must. I wont be too helpful with the training...
  3. Coeur d'Alene Idaho Running info

    Hi all, Are there any CdA runners here? How about people who have been running in North Idaho. I need some information about surface conditions. I am hoping to do Ironman CdA next june barefoot. I used to live there, but I was not a barefooter at the time and don't remember what the...
  4. 13 Things your podiatrist won't tell you

    Just like the comment about Just like the comment about not mowing the grass in flip flops. Unless you are wearing steel toed boots, those blades will cut you toes off just as quickly in "normal" shoes as they would in flip flops. If you put your foot under a running lawn mower, you are...
  5. Survial situations, being prepared.

    migangelo wrote:. . .  i Come on Mike. You live in Oregon! There is no nudity law. You can be totally naked as long as you are not doing it for the purpose of sexual arousal, you are good to go. There is a lady here in Portland that I have seen riding her bike nude and there was some...
  6. Other than footwear, are you a minimalist triathlete?

    I have just found the BRS I have just found the BRS site and it feels good to have found people like me. I have done a lot of tris but quit when I had kids. The last iteration of racing was definitely a gear glutony. But as I get back into it, i am very minimal. So, I am signed up for...
  7. I put shoes on today. . .

    So I took off my running shoes three years ago. I had ended racing competitively when I had kids and now fun racing is creeping back in to my life. I have only run in VFFs and barefoot since then. I have been completely barefoot, not even in VFFs since July. I completed my first marathon BF...