ORN: Three miles in 31:42.
Sometimes 81° is boiling hot, and sometimes it isn't. It's the strangest thing.
Last night, I went for a run late. I had eaten a ton of pizza, and that usually means my run will be sluggish, unpleasant, and nauseating. However, this time, I gave my digestive tract three hours' notice. I ran fairly well, though I needed to walk at one point.
Yesterday, for about 30 minutes, I entertained the idea of running barefoot. The Chi Running guru indicated it is a surefire way to avoid injury, run naturally, and have people look at you funny. There are people who do it. In fact, there are people that run marathons barefoot. I thought I might possibly be up for it until I saw pictures of one dude's feet after he went running in 20° slushy weather. In fact, he [the guy in the second link] fairly well butchered his feet once or twice. I won't post links to the pictures because they are gross, and I now wish I could burn those images from my brain.
My position now is that sometimes human beings create technology that actually makes our lives better and improves on what nature provided. And it is right and proper that this should be so. Shoes are one example. These barefoot runner folks can be as smug as they want. I'll take my chances.
Besides, to what would I adhere my Nike+?
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Sometimes 81° is boiling hot, and sometimes it isn't. It's the strangest thing.
Last night, I went for a run late. I had eaten a ton of pizza, and that usually means my run will be sluggish, unpleasant, and nauseating. However, this time, I gave my digestive tract three hours' notice. I ran fairly well, though I needed to walk at one point.
Yesterday, for about 30 minutes, I entertained the idea of running barefoot. The Chi Running guru indicated it is a surefire way to avoid injury, run naturally, and have people look at you funny. There are people who do it. In fact, there are people that run marathons barefoot. I thought I might possibly be up for it until I saw pictures of one dude's feet after he went running in 20° slushy weather. In fact, he [the guy in the second link] fairly well butchered his feet once or twice. I won't post links to the pictures because they are gross, and I now wish I could burn those images from my brain.
My position now is that sometimes human beings create technology that actually makes our lives better and improves on what nature provided. And it is right and proper that this should be so. Shoes are one example. These barefoot runner folks can be as smug as they want. I'll take my chances.
Besides, to what would I adhere my Nike+?
Technorati Tags: running, running barefoot, insanity, pizza, chirunning
You have it wrong. Barefoot is best. Get out there and try it before knocking it. Or get injured. Choice is yours.
ReplyDeleteDude, the whole point of Barefoot Rick showing you picture of his feet after running in 20 degree slush was to point out LIMITS, not encourage mimicking.
ReplyDeleteHowever, most of the time it is not freezing cold and slushy, is it?
I would say that barefooting is fundamental to getting a fundamental competence in any sport, especially running.
Think of martial arts with big, fat, padded shoes disconnected from the ground. Foolish.
Yes, it takes time to develop barefooting, it takes patience, but in the end it is the fundamental way.
Barefoot Ted
www.BarefootTed.com
Have you even tried running barefoot for a short distance, in nice weather, feeling the way your feet touch the ground, and listening to the invaluable natural feedback, which wants to teach us how to run gently, gracefully, efficiently, and naturally?
ReplyDeleteAnd don't even try to tell me that shoes do not damage feet. I've tried running with shoes, both in training and for one marathon.
Fortunately, after my experiment running with shoes, my blisters healed and my toenails grew back.
Barefoot Rick's frostbite healed a short time after his experiment running too much in the snow.
But, most of our severe and chronic foot problems exist only in societies where people habitually wear shoes.
Here is a picture of habitually shod feet (on the left) compared with my feet, which have been bare most of their lives, and have completed 60 marathons (road and trail), a 50K trail run, as well as hundreds of shorter races, all without shoes;
http://www.runningbarefoot.org/?image=IMG_0230
Have fun,
-barefoot ken bob
Thanks for commenting, guys. I obviously stuck my foot in it* by speaking before I had given it a try. I will give it a try soon, probably on my next easy run day.
ReplyDelete* [Puns always intended.]