Alex Honnold

When he gets to the top, he can not wait to take his shoes off!

I want to run long in the mountains SOON!

12 Year Old Triathlete Raising Money for Prostate Cancer in Honor of Father

This is a quite inspiring story.

No excuses; go train.



SALEM -- A 12-year-old girl from Salem is on a very personal mission to make a difference by raising more than a quarter of a million dollars for cancer research.... (more)

I Am A Barefoot Runner

This is so funny. Especially the part about the VFF's smelling bad!

Thank you for making this one FacePaster

The Conquest of Everest (1953 Feature Film)

Note the BAREFOOT porters about 13:30 into this...

Haile Gebrselassie

Haile Gebrselassie is a forefoot striker.  Watch some vids at Youtube.  His feet move fast, so it is a little difficult to see his forefoot strike.  He ran 10K 2X per day to school and back, barefoot, for 10 years.  Kinda explains things.  In this vid, he places his arm around a young Ethiopian boy and says, "He could be my double, except he has the shoes. I had no shoes."

I jokingly propose that One World Running, an organization that brings donations and running shoes to Africa, is a plan by the USOC to slow down future African runners!

Bill Rodgers Running Boston

In the media circles I follow, there is a general buzz about Bill Rodgers running Boston this Monday.  Bill is a great guy and one of my true heroes.  He will talk and have a beer with you, as you can see by the photo above from the 2003 Boilermaker 15K.  I make an almost annual trip to the Boilermaker 15K with people from my running club .  At that venue, Bill is always approachable and will talk with you about anything as if he has done a hundred miles of running with you.  He gave tons of advice about how to run the course to one of my friends last year.  Here is a cool video of his 1979 win at Boston.  Gotta love the hat!

Spirit of the Marathon movie

I went to see the movie Spirit of the Marathon last night. The movie was like a hybrid bike - trying to be everything, it ends up not good on the roads and not good on the trails. The movie tried too hard to include both recreational level runners with world class runners. As a result it was a little too light for long-term running addicts. I wanted more from the cameo "legend runner" speakers, more from Deena and Njenga; and less about group training runs at 12 minute pace. But there were probably people in the audience that loved the everyday athlete take. The music got annoying after a while. It went on and on and on with too much lalala campy inspirational orchestration when the movie needed some good rocking sonic kick.

The movie didn't inspire me with running-as-religion significance - but it left me wanting to run Chicago, no doubt a beautiful city, despite the craziness that killed the race in '07.

Form Video

Good video showing proper running technique (even though shoes are worn).

Ben Underwood is Blind

But he is amazing - he can echo locate and uses all his other senses to "see" the world and perform as if sighted -
And I am pretty sure he walks barefoot -
Watch the vid


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