March 2010
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Barefoot at the 2nd Annual Fort Vancouver Runs
The combination of winning a free entry to the Fort Vancouver Runs from OregonLive.com on 28 March, and my daughter asking to go to another race for her 4th birthday this weekend, meant a wonderful barefoot morning with dad and daughters on Sunday. The girls are getting a little big for their rickshaw but I have the next generation ride in the works. I did the 15K but I think that on this race...
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One Day Run for Hunger was a great success!
I’m thankful for all of the support I had in the One Day Run for Hunger. With the help of a great many we raised $1045 for the Oregon Food Bank, and as chance would have it this matched exactly my goal of $10/mile as I logged 104.5 miles in those 24 hours. That was good enough to take home a plaque for 4th place. I had a great support crew, from my father who was there from setup to pack...
One day run for hunger is starting!
Follow the updates at @zekeboisei on Twitter or the Distance Minimally page on Facebook!
With all of your help we exceeded my fundraising goal of $1000 for the Oregon Food Bank, and am shooting for 100+ miles! Wish me luck!
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Distance uni cover story in Tail Winds magazine
And a barefoot running story to boot! Check out the great Tail Winds cover shot by Brad Jones at RB Jones Photography, and the articles on pages 10 and 11 about Max and my 109 mile ride of El Tour de Tucson and my record barefoot running of the Dean Karnazes Rock n Roll 50k.
Here’s the direct link
(For the record, we don’t know any circus songs and Vibram Five Fingers are not...
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Energy efficient walking
[Update 1: Minor text updates and added write up to this post instead of just linking to the original post]
Recently there was a study by Dr. David Carrier on the efficiency of different foot positions while walking, most notably a heel-strike vs a forefoot strike. The results showed that heel striking was more efficient than forefoot striking while walking. Many, particularly in the barefoot...
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"World Record" has a nice ring to it!
It turns out that January’s barefoot 50K at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Ultra 50K with a time of 4:14:52 was enough to earn the title of “World Record” for fastest barefoot 50K kept on Barefoot Ken Bob’s Running Barefoot site.
I have to admit, this didn’t even occur to me, even when I realized that my run had a place on his results page, until Ken Bob responded by...