Minimal & Natural Running
I have a confession. About a year ago, when I first started “barefoot running,” I wasn’t really running. I would jog occasionally, but really, for the most part, I was walking and hiking. Everything I had read about conditioning my feet told me it would take some time before I would be able to run [...]
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An interesting thing happened this week. I’ve been at the beach with my children and mom, enjoying some much-desired and rare downtime. Every morning as the sun came up, I was seduced by the siren song of the ocean, calling me to run on the sand. Mile after mile, I felt like I was flying, [...]
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Pretty much every week, three times a week, for the last year I have put on my headphones, selected a playlist, turned up the volume and gone out for a little run. Barefoot, of course. Before last year, I hadn’t been a runner. I hadn’t even been someone who was particularly active. (Not since those [...]
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If you had asked me six years ago, “Would you ever run an ultramarathon?” I would have told you that those people were insane. Fast-forward to the present (and the removal of shoes) . . . After I raced the Skyline 50K barefoot in August 2011, someone asked me, “Why ultras and why barefoot?” My [...]
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Ariele has been a passionate barefoot lifestyle advocate for many years. On a whim, she decided to reminisce on her favorite and most humorous barefoot memories. Enjoy! Weirdest BF Injury: I broke my toe when I stubbed it on my husband’s work boot. We were moving furniture, and I quite literally kicked his steel-toed [...]
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Are you a multi-sport athlete? Do you enjoy a game of basketball, volleyball, or soccer as much as a nice morning long-run? If so, you probably recognize the benefits of having a well-rounded workout schedule. In addition to running, you work on explosive movements, squats, jumps, wind-sprints, crunches, and countless other activities that prepare your [...]
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Independent filmmaker Tara Golden of Tara Golden Custom Videos is hoping to travel down to the Barracas de Cobre (Copper Canyon), home to the Tarahumara, to make a film about their culture and to find out why they run. The filming of Why We Run: An Independent Film about the Tarahumara will take place before, during, [...]
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It’s not just about the barefoot movement, it’s about the movement movement. Something special happened six years ago on a bluebird snowboarding day. Two exercise physiology professionals named Lauren and Scott met in the single riders line, rode up (and down…and up and down) the mountain together and started something that has become a [...]
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Over the course of 2011, we saw thousands of barefoot running enthusiasts engage with this site. As we plan the content that we will provide in 2012, we have this excellent group of you in mind. In an effort to bring you topics that are relevant, timely, educational and entertaining, we’d like to know what [...]
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My name is Jordan Flowers and I was recently given the opportunity to try out a sample bag of Achiva Native Energy. As an avid distance runner, I was excited to add the drink into my diet and training regimen while preparing for an upcoming marathon. I’ve been consuming raw chia seed before daily runs [...]
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