October 2009
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“Hope you got your flu shot!”
– the most baffling response I got about running yesterday’s race barefoot
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What's next?
I’ve recovered from my “feats of the feet” back to back minimalist/barefoot adventures in late September and early October. I still have my final reflections on those runs as a pair that I’m working on, part 4 in my 4 part series, but it’s a hard one for me.
Fall is here in earnest. My wife suggested doing the Run Like Hell event here in Portland. It seemed like a...
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An amazing example of going the distance with less
Most of the challenges described here on Distance Minimally involve chosen constraints, deciding to make do without gear that most endurance athletes consider essential to their sport. This week, in what must be the Distance Minimally Performance Of The Year, Amy Palmiero-Winters was the women’s winner of the Heartland 100 Mile Endurance Run. A below-the-knee amputee, she finished with a...
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Barefoot at the Portland Marathon
This is part three in a four part report on my recent barefoot/minimalist running. The first part detailed my unshod journey - how I took off my shoes. The second part was a detailed race report of the “Hundred in the Hood” in Vibrams, in which I ran the PCT Ultra 100 Mile Endurance Run wearing Vibram Five Fingers. This post provides a detailed race report of my barefoot running of...
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Barefoot Portland Marathon - the short report
I’ve got my race report all written from my first barefoot marathon, the Portland Marathon on 4 October 2009. I’ve just been waiting for some pictures to add to the final posting.
The brief report is that I ran the marathon barefoot with success and finished in 4:10. I feel great about the accomplishment. This is not only because running a marathon barefoot reaches such a momentous...
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"Hundred in the 'Hood" in Vibram Five Fingers,...
I’ve never been good at writing race reports. Maybe I’d be better at an interpretive dance, or a song in the style of Ewok Celebration that combines a sort of speaking in tongues with story telling and impersonation with a driving beat. Alas, I’m really no good at those either but now I have two momentous runs backlogged that I’ve promised I would document. In a way they...
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Stories from the unicycle commute
One from the archives. On 1 July 2008 Donald on BikePortland.org posted the following story about our crossing paths on that Tuesday’s commute:
Unicycles Rule!
This evening, I was running late. I was lugging my laptop in a pannier, but my 80s Raleigh Comp GS was still in fighting form, tires just topped off to 110 and fresh lube on the drivetrain. I’ve had a good winter of...
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My unshod journey - how I took off my shoes
I keep finding myself writing a history of my barefoot/minimalist running while working on the race report for last weekend’s “Hundred in the ‘Hood” PCT100. It seems that story needs to be told first. Some of it was told in my recent interview with Aaron from Transcend Bodywork. Some I haven’t shared before. Here it is.
I tried my first jogs without shoes in...