2012 IBRD Official Report

Wonderful, Brazil. Loves it! Thanks for taking part.
 
Great pics, Henry!
 
We had a small group of 9 (or so) for the IBRD in Washington, DC, this year. We attended a clinic with a Vibram fivefingers rep at Hudson Trail Outfitters, and then ran around the neighborhood a bit. As our organizer NYAB, said "We had some great dialogue about barefoot/minim
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alist running and helped a new minimalist runner take her first strides in VFFs."

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IBRD Slovenia was great! Marko hasn mentioned but the event was International. Along with people from Slovenia there were two guests from neighbouring Croatia - myself and my buddy who is just starting barefooting. We were kindly welcomed and had really a great time! Since Croatias population is nearly four times larger than Slovenia, we have lot of work to do to spread the barefoot gospel :)
Thanks to Marko for hospitality and to everyone that helped barefooting movement grow!
 
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We had four runners in our little group on the 6th. The weather was fine, no rain, like we experienced on our last run. Our run was scheduled for 10.30am on the Sunday and we met at the Jetty at Grange. I turned up at around 10.00am and it was shortly after that I realised that organising a barefoot run near the beach meant that there would be quite a few people walking around without shoes, this raised the question how do I recognise the 'real' barefoot runners. I saw a group of 4 men dressing in running gear and no shoes, I slowly wandered up and asked if they were here for a run, yes, they replied, I then asked "A barefoot run?" they looked kind of puzzled, I then explained and I think they must have thought I was the local crazy, no, they had come for a beach workout and had no intention of running along the road without shoes. I then looked around and saw quite a few people waiting around with no shoes, this was kind of like going on a blind date. Next time I need to say turn up at the jetty and wear a red carnation and no shoes, or maybe use a special hand signal!
Anyway eventually we worked out who we were and after introductions and a bit of a catch up we set off on a short loop of 4km, 2km along the footpath that follows the Esplanade. It was 2km to the next jetty which we covered at a easy talking pace, then after checking everyone was ok we got onto the sand for the return run. The tide was out and so there was plenty of good firm sand to run on. To finish off the run we retired to the nearby cafe for some cappucinos and conversation.
I've floated the idea of getting together for a more regular monthly run on the first Sunday in each month on a route near each participant. I'll see how it goes.
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Chris, Jenny, David and Neil on the Grange Jetty on IBRD 2012
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Thanks to Paleo and all the organizers and runners for this terrific event. I am very proud that our band of barefoot brothers and sisters are creating the opportunity around the world to enjoy the most amazing sport, barefoot running. Since last year I have got to know three other barefoot runners. Chris G., Warren D., and Alan. T. who are all amazing people. I am planning for May 5 2013 and will apply Marko's great idea of getting shoe donations. I will also do a small Facebook campaign. Looking forward to it already.
 
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finally got a pic =)
 
our event here in Kalamazoo wound up imploding as nobody really found each other. From what I've gathered we actually had 4 5k runners, 2 half marathoners and 2 full marathoners at the Borgess run for the health of it. Might have been more, but if there was they haven't said anything ;)

5k: zetti, Eric "caveman" Cooper, Trudi Cooper and Scott from south bend Indiana
Half: Ken Jones and Steven Novitscus
Full: John Yohe and myself

Sadly, despite walking a line between the gear check tent and the Kalamazoo area runners tent (which was where I suggested we meet)For about an hour I only saw Eric, and even then it was with about 10 minutes to start the full. I think John had tried the same thing but he and I must have just missed each other. I did chat with Scott for a while, and Eric, Trudi, Ken and I got together for beers the night before, so thankfully it wasn't like we all missed each other completely. From what I heard, Eric and Zetti ran together for a while, Steven and Ken finished the half within 6 minutes (I think) of each other but never saw each other as far as I know, and Eric had been near the finish cheering for John when he came in. I didn't see anyone at the end due to a bad case of the DNFs that got me at 19.75 miles.
 
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Hey, I ran the Cincinnati Flying Pig Half Marathon on IBRD. I never did catch up with any others running barefoot, but I friend told me he saw two people running the full marathon barefooted. It was a good day for a half, but hot for the marathoners.

Sorry, no photos. I didn't even get to my corral before the race started so just got around the fencing behind the start line and jumped into the crowd already running. Didn't hang around long afterwards to watch much. I am kind of a party-pooper that-a-way. Still had a good time running, but really had to keep focused because of a crowded course the whole race.
 
Ran the Cinco de Miler 5 mile race in Chicago at montrose harbor on the lakefront. Our event kind of imploded as well. 6 of our members were supposed to meet, however we missed each other. I know for sure Owen Mc Call and myself did run it. I believe the others bailed out. Nice day for the race, Rainy but not overly hot out.
 
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Terry posted this in the SF Bay Area Chapter page, but I'm going to repost here...this is the group from the Bay Area IBRD at Lake Chabot, Castro Valley, CA. We ran about 2.4 miles (which, at the time was the longest I had ever run, BF).
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Thanks for posting that, Matey! SF Representing!

Anyone else got any IBRD pictures, please be sure to share them here as well.