I’m declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the barefoot mile.
As it’s been over a year since my last post, it must be pretty clear that I have abandoned my goal. What was killing me though, was that I still thought I’d get back to it at some point. Once the weather got nicer! After training [...]
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Declaring Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Happy New Year!
It’s a new year and time to reassess my goals and priorities. Since we returned from our mini-retirement in Buenos Aires, I have done very little physical activity, let alone running. I think it’s safe to say that I’ll be pretty much starting over with my mile training once I get back into a training [...]
On Focus
Focus. That’s been on my mind a lot lately and at least in part over the last couple years.
My pursuit of a sub-5:00 mile got sidetracked a little bit as my Ultimate (frisbee) Summer League came to an end at the beginning of August. On top of Summer League, my day job started to [...]
No Vibrams yet, but did get a picture for the masthead
I was hoping to get my Vibram Five Fingers yesterday, but they still haven’t arrived yet (I hear they’ll be in today or tomorrow at the latest). So, I headed out to the track again with an up-tempo 1.2 mile run in my Nike Frees to the CMU track (I just checked the distance on [...]
First real barefoot walking experience
Since I had to walk home to sign for a UPS delivery, I ended up walking to and from my office twice yesterday for a total of 4 miles barefoot. My feet were a little tender by the end of the day and I developed a minor blister on my one foot, but I’m pretty [...]
June 1-7 is Barefoot Week!
So, I was just setting up a Google Alert for “barefoot running” this morning and found out that today was the first day of Barefoot Week (a national event started by Soles 4 Souls.
Since I was just about to head out the door in flip flops (my closest to barefoot shoes), I decided just to [...]