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  1. twinkletoes

    what's in your BFR fanny pack?

    A good sports bra will hold a A good sports bra will hold a cel-phone (in protective snack-baggie). Running skirts have great pockets for i.d., gum, a housekey, tweezers- little stuff. It bugs me, but I always wear a visor because the high-desert sun is intense even in the morning.
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    Sealskinz...

    Ya, I bought them too Ya, I bought them too thinking I could use them during a recent relay run. They were so tight around the top that I struggled to get them on, but then they were really floppy around the foot. I returned them and just ran with my Speedo water shoes.
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    TOFP- how long till I can run again?

    Thanks for your input Thanks for your input LavaRunner. It makes sense, since I was up to 9 mi BF on the trail before frozen mud set in. Then I was forced back to flatish asphalt training for the half-marathon May1, and then 10 wks ago I moved to a neighborhood where my legs and feet are...
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    TOFP- how long till I can run again?

    I see how I generalized your I see how I generalized your first statement without considering that this just must be another phase in the growing pains and I have to dial back. It's just distressing to have a wonky foot again all of a sudden when I was finally running pain-free for a while...
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    TOFP- how long till I can run again?

    If TMTS is typical for TOPF, If TMTS is typical for TOPF, then how can I have it suddenly in my left foot, as in last weekend during an easy 5.5 mile run on my usual course (for the past 3 months) and after running 260 miles barefoot exclusively since January? I tried to run this morning but...
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    Had a great barefoot run on cement tonight

    ajw1970- Swept concrete ajw1970- Swept concrete sidewalks are like clouds for the feet and I've discovered in the last couple months that I can run farther and more often if I don't chew my feet up running exclusively on hot chip/seal or rocky hard-clay trails. It's all personal preference of...
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    How was your July?

    I ended up with 50.5 for the I ended up with 50.5 for the month, all hills and all barefoot BF. I lost several running days to migraine, and several more because of the stomach flu but I'm happy to just be running. JT, I enjoy a cold spray from the hose in the yard when I'm done these days...
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    Lawn Mower

    I love mowing the lawn in my I love mowing the lawn in my barefeet! It's an electric pushmower and I've never worried about mangling- I do that well enough inside the house. Well, but I did give up cutting or stacking firewood in flip-flops (now heavy boots) after I split my big toe open by a...
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    frustrated newbie mileage update (long way to go)

    Welcome Shawshank. As you are Welcome Shawshank. As you are likely well aware, the transition time is different for everyone, and most do experience frustration at the need for patience. When I think back on the first few months, I remember wondering if the change to BF was worth it because of...
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    GREAT NEWS!!!! GOAL REACHED! Record & donate the miles run on Saturday, July 23, to help raise

    Thanks TJ. Hope you're Thanks TJ. Hope you're feeling better.
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    Article: Dr. Mark Cucuzzella’s Reply to Jeff Galloway’s Views on Minimalist Running Shoes and Injuri

    It's alwaysaggravating to mewhen people who don't support our running style trot out "severe injuries" as the main argument against running without the Highly Engineered Running Shoes. As if podiatrists and orthopaedic surgeons had no steadybusiness everfrom severely injuredrunners before this...
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    Dr. Mark Cucuzzella’s Reply to Jeff Galloway’s Views on Minimalist Running Shoes and Injuries

    It's alwaysaggravating to mewhen people who don't support our running style trot out "severe injuries" as the main argument against running without the Highly Engineered Running Shoes. As if podiatrists and orthopaedic surgeons had no steadybusiness everfrom severely injuredrunners before this...
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    GREAT NEWS!!!! GOAL REACHED! Record & donate the miles run on Saturday, July 23, to help raise

    I ran 8.5mi this I ran 8.5mi this morning....TJ can you log for me please? Remember I'm a techno-dork and not on Facebook.
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    A COMMON CAUSE OF LOW BACK AND SCIATIC PAIN – THE PIRIFORMIS

    Thanks for posting this Thanks for posting this Jesse! I haven't had trouble for a few months now, but it was 7/8 months of hell before I figured out that my misery was due to piriformis syndrome. I really hope this information helps others around here. In addition to your stretches (which are...
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    Do you feel sorry for shod runners?

    My arms go out too when I'm My arms go out too when I'm rock-dodging; By "flailing" I just meant the arm-and-leg-swing thing I see sometimes when people are running along and it seems as if their body is being pulled in different directions all at once and I wonder how the knees can take the...
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    Do you feel sorry for shod runners?

    I feel sorry for shod (& I feel sorry for shod (& minimalist) runners whose feet and arms are flailing about from such bad form. It just looks like so much energy, and I remember how hips, shins, knees hurt when I ran like that!
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    My Hardest Race Ever

    Nice Joseph! Hills are Nice Joseph! Hills are brutal, and my new favorite thing since my barefeet don't like the trails anymore. We've got some pukers in my neighborhood!
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    Racing barefoot vs. w/ the minimals? Help need advice :-)

    I'm a turtle so "racing" is a I'm a turtle so "racing" is a relative term for me. I decided last January to run my first BF half-marathon in May this year. I knew the route already from running in shoes the year before, although looking at asphalt is not the same as running it BF. For several...
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    Running blind

    Lasik surgery two weeks ago Lasik surgery two weeks ago has completely changed my view of my surroundings and running is even more joyful. What did it for me was running in a relay last month, during which I had each the sundown and sunrise legs was frustrated to have to carry both sunglasses...
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    GREAT NEWS!!!! GOAL REACHED! Record & donate the miles run on Saturday, July 23, to help raise

    This is cool. I'll mark it This is cool. I'll mark it down.
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