I guess, along with "the great bearded sage," we are the die-hards. Barefoot running may be over, but here's why barefoot training is still smart Los Angeles Times A few years back, barefoot running was red-hot. Thanks to the book "Born to Run," soon to be a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, thousands of ...
All communities ebb and flow, society and nature are not static or predictable. Sometimes things get quiet, thats normal, not the end of something.
When I first arrived in Taiwan 8 years ago, there weren't very many people running barefoot, especially marathons. This past year there have been at least 3 or 4 other people running the marathon barefoot. I just ran the Hartford Marathon and I think I was the only person running it barefoot. And people also seemed to be surprised by it too. I figured after 10 years people would be more used to it and there would be more people running barefoot, especially compared to Taiwan since they started later than the US.
