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.
(For the record, we don’t know any circus songs and Vibram Five Fingers are not “just like running barefoot”)
I have a small part in CNN’s take on the barefoot running debate, in between discussion of Dr. Lieberman’s article showing barefoot style running land with lower impact forces and Dr. Carrier’s article showing that our heel strike walking gait is more efficient than the forefoot strikes of other nearby species.
The quotes are pretty heavily paraphrased and out of context. I must say, if I didn’t know I took part in the interview I’m not sure I’d recognize the words attributed to me!
After exchanging a few emails with Kelly Johnson from the OregonLive.com’s Run Oregon blog, a nice write up about my development as a barefoot runner was posted this weekend. I think Kelly did about as good a job as any I’ve seen on discussing the topic, as well as my reasoning for and experience with it. Enjoy!
The race report from November’s El Tour de Tucson is in the works, but I can’t resist passing along some photos from the event taken by Brad Jones at RB Jones Photography. Expect to see his work documenting our ride in an upcoming issue of Tailwinds magazine!
http://rbjonesphotography.zenfolio.com/unigallery
I sat for an interview with Aaron Gustafson from Oregonically Grown and Transcend Bodywork to talk about running ultramarathons, running without shoes, and what that entails. Aaron did a great job of editing my tea-fueled rambling into a coherent message. Thanks Aaron!
A great article by Jim Moore about our 2009 Reach the Beach unicycle century ride, titled “One Wheel, 100 Miles — Ow! That’s Gotta Hurt”. It was published in The Oregonian on 20 June 2009. A nice Father’s Day surprise, I woke up to a message from a friend on my Facebook wall simply saying “I saw the article - you’re awesome!” Unfortunately the online version doesn’t do justice to the full page spread with a great photo of Max and my finish that the newspaper version featured.
http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2009/06/one_wheel_100_miles_ow_thats_g.html
An article by Elizabeth Moore about our 2009 Reach the Beach unicycle century ride.
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/06/10/united-states-one-wheeled-wonders/
Distance: 102 miles
Minimally: 1 wheel
Ahead of our 2009 Reach the Beach ride, our group of 4 distance unicyclists appeared on KGW’s morning news in the “Out and About” segment with Drew Carney throughout the newscast.
