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    Ran the Hong Kong half-marathon barefoot... and achieved a personal best!

    Ran the Hong Kong half-marathon barefoot... and achieved a personal best! By Visions Of Asia Hello guys. Sorry for not...
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    Barefoot trail running during the pandemic

    Barefoot trail running during the pandemic By Visions of Asia Long time no see... Sorry guys, 2020 has been a disastrous year in terms of physical...
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    Two 10 kms races

    Two 10 kms races By Visions of Asia I lack a bit of time to always write about my barefoot activities (I am very late for reporting on my trip to Korea on my own blog)...
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    First 10K barefoot race!

    First 10K barefoot race! By Visions of Asia So, I bit the bullet, and decided to register myself for a real race barefoot (yeah, obviously...
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    Ran the Hong Kong half-marathon barefoot... and achieved a personal best!

    Ran the Hong Kong half-marathon barefoot... and achieved a personal best! By Visions Of Asia Hello guys. Sorry for not having been much around, but I have basically been locked up in 60 km² for two years because of the very stringent Covid quarantine rules in Hong Kong (21 days in a hotel if...
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    Barefoot trail running during the pandemic

    Barefoot trail running during the pandemic By Visions of Asia Long time no see... Sorry guys, 2020 has been a disastrous year in terms of physical fitness for me. Whereas, during 2019, I had grown my barefoot fitness to be able to run a semi-marathon, the constraints in terms of public health...
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    are you barefooters or barefoot runners?

    I am a barefoot runner primarily. I walk also barefoot from time to time, but do not feel the need to do so everywhere. I wear shoes at the office, often switch into running gear to return home (barefoot). From time to time, I do take the metro or other transportation barefoot (after a hike, for...
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    Barefoot hiking on a volcano

    And today, this is the situation a journalist found on volcano island: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/asia/taal-volcano.html
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    Barefoot hiking on a volcano

    Anybody remember this volcano? Well, the crater erupted into a phreatic explosion. https://twitter.com/patrissshh/status/1216278547356012544 The view will probably never be the same again. While no loss of life has been recorded, the horses used to carry tourists and all livestock or other...
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    Barefoot hike on Mount Takao in Japan

    After running my first 21 k, back in November, I went on to travel to Japan to enjoy the fall colors and the lovely autumn season. And as usual, I managed to insert a couple of barefoot hikes therein. The first one was in Tokyo, on Takao-san (or Mount Takao). Japanese warmly supportive of...
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    Two years barefoot running... And my first half-marathon!

    So, last November marked two years since I first started barefoot running... And it was also the occasion of completing my first half-marathon. I did complete in the ridiculous time of 2h45, but part of that misperformance was also due to the course being extremely hilly and demanding. Anyway, I...
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    A Spartan Race, the Spartan way!

    I mentioned that in a previous post, on the mud run... But eventually, I managed to do a full Spartan sprint race barefoot. I had some apprehensions as the organizers did not recommend running barefoot, but ultimately, they couldn't care less. However, the terrain was not really...
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    And finally did the Lion's rock hike barefoot!

    The Lion's rock is a very strong symbol for all hongkongese, as it expresses their strong will and their desire to resist pressure (and God knows they are facing a lot of pressure from China these days!). It was somehow strange, but I never tackled this pretty easy hike until now. Probably...
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    A barefoot mud run

    Probably not. But in general, the race takes place through gravel and wild growth (ok, nothing I have not done before). Speed not gonna be really a factor for me.
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    A barefoot mud run

    So, I registered for my first spartan race in one month... And found this in their material. "We do not recommend barefoot running. 我們不建議赤腳跑步" :(
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    A barefoot mud run

    Now, here is the thing... The "mud" part of the race did not cover more than 100 m over 6 kms. The rest of the track was mainly ordinary trail running + a very nasty chipped gravel section (check my youtube videos). Normally, I can cover double the distance on trail running in real trail...
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    A barefoot mud run

    So finally, after hiking, running 10k's, etc, I also started mud runs. Last Sunday, I took to what might be deemed a "soft" version of a Spartan run, with very easy obstacles, not too much mud and a short trail run of 6 kms. Overall, no big difference with running/hiking barefoot, but much...
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    Barefoot, on a mountain during a thunderstorm...

    Last Saturday, we took on to a barefoot hike with my new friend, Yuan (the barefoot ultra-trail runner), in the Ma On Shan country park. Part hiking, part rock scrambling, this barefoot hike was complicated by the very humid conditions of the trail due to some rain the day before. But this was...
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    Two 10 kms races

    Two 10 kms races By Visions of Asia I lack a bit of time to always write about my barefoot activities (I am very late for reporting on my trip to Korea on my own blog), but January saw an uptick with barefoot running. In fact, I participated in two barefoot races of 10 K each. While the first...
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    Meeting another barefoot trail runner...

    So, it seemed for quite some time that I was the only barefoot runner in Hong Kong. Now I know that is not true any longer. On one of our hikes through the Maclehose trail, we can across Yuan, a barefoot trail runner since 4 years already. The nice thing being that he is even an ultra runner...
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