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  1. survey from the Arizona School of Podiatric Medicine

    There's another survey related to barefoot running, this one conducted by researchers at the Arizona School of Podiatric Medicine. See the survey here. It's better than most surveys on the topic, although it's not perfect. Most researchers so far have not designed their surveys to answer some...
  2. Apache persistence hunting

    I just came across two historical accounts of Apache persistence hunting in the 1800s. We already have the fantastic movie, The Great Hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeNcsQZmZY), which shows persistence hunting among the San in the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. Today I was...
  3. review of "Bikila: Ethiopia's Barefoot Olympian" by Tim Judah

    I just finished reading the book "Bikila: Ethiopia's Barefoot Olympian" by Tim Judah (2008, Reportage Press). I thought with the word "barefoot" in the title, the book might be able to shed some light about that aspect of Bikila's running. Surprisingly, there's very little in the book that...