Could Running be Adding Stress to Your Life?

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  The Down­side of Run­ning Is it just me, or do you also expe­ri­ence a wide swing of emo­tions after run­ning? I know many peo­ple expe­ri­ence a “run­ners’ high” – that rush of endor­phins that leaves you happy and intensely present – and I do get that, but I also expe­ri­ence the oppo­site lows. I’m […]

Invisible Shoes – First Attempt

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Invis­i­ble Shoes Huarache San­dals I have to admit that I really, really wanted the Invis­i­ble Shoes huaraches to work out for me. I loved the idea of a thin-soled, open san­dal. The idea of run­ning with noth­ing more than a long shoe lace and bit of rub­ber under my feet sounded great. Unfor­tu­nately, my first […]

I Got Rolfed!

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Ever heard of Rolf­ing? You read cor­rectly, Rolf. I cer­tainly hadn’t when my Cross­Fit trainer sug­gested I meet with his “Rolfer”. I was a bit wary mak­ing my first appoint­ment, as Rolf­ing sounded like some­thing that is ille­gal in most States! A word that seems bet­ter suited to describ­ing the hurl­ing you do after working […]

Carpe Noctem

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We all have the power to moti­vate. Twit­ter is great for many things. Like links to good infor­ma­tion, humor, and encour­age­ment. It can also be quite a good source of moti­va­tion. And that’s what I got today. I posted a tweet ear­lier today say­ing it was so warm here today in the San Fran­cisco Bay […]

Viva Las Red Rocks!

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Escap­ing the Strip I attended the Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show (CES) for three days this past week. What an expe­ri­ence. 120,000 peo­ple (mostly men) descend upon Vegas to see the lat­est gad­gets, acces­sories, appli­ances, and much more. After a cou­ple of days of try­ing to nav­i­gate the crowds, get­ting nearly blinded by all the screens and lights, […]

I am a Barefoot Runner”

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I just came across this video link on twit­ter (posted by @kentox). It’s an ani­ma­tion of two char­ac­ters in an office set­ting talk­ing about bare­foot run­ning. What makes it hilar­i­ous is not only the state­ments about being a deranged lunatic and break­ing free from the Matrix, but the text-to-video soft­ware used cre­ates for some funny […]

Kigo Footwear – Initial Review

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Kigo who? I don’t remem­ber exactly how I first heard of Kigo. I think it was on twit­ter. What caught my atten­tion was their talk about bare­foot run­ning and the virtues of a min­i­mal­ist shoe. The fact that I hadn’t heard of them made me even more curi­ous. I con­tacted Kigo and heard back from […]

Snowy Creek Trail, Yosemite

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A dream come true. For a lucky few, an 11 mile run in the moun­tains, includ­ing 6,000 feet of ele­va­tion change and a mile run­ning on snow is nor­mal. For me, this was a very sig­nif­i­cant event. It was not only the longest run of my life, but more mean­ing­ful for me, though, is that a […]

The 5 Elements of Good Barefoot Form

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A Means to an End In my mind, run­ning bare­foot is a means to an end. And that end is a bet­ter run­ning form. A form that lever­ages what I was born with, reduc­ing the risk of injury and increas­ing my over­all effi­ciency. But what exactly is a good run­ning form? And how does run­ning without […]

So Cool in Wool

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Review of Ice­breaker GT Run Gear It might come as a shock to you that to remain cool on the trail, or wher­ever you run, you might want to try wear­ing all wool. It cer­tainly sounded counter-intuitive when I heard that Ice­breaker makes per­for­mance gear out of merino wool. With images of thick, scratchy sweaters popping […]

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