Welcome to my blog. My name is John, and I am a 30 year old runner, musician, and sometime lawyer living in the mountains of eastern Arizona with my fellow runner wife.
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| Not Pictured: Eastern Arizona |
I have been running since, well, technically since I was a little kid. I started running to work out in college and continued sporadically through law school but never enjoyed it until I spent a few months living in the outskirts of Tucson in late 2008. It was then, running every day around sunset through the washes which meander through the lush Sonoran Desert, that I fell in love with running.
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| Not Pictured: Coyotes, javelina, antelope, horses, snakes, rabbits, tarantulas, owls, lizards, eagles, birds, me |
Since then, running has been both a joyful pastime and a pathological need. It has also been an occasional source of frustration as I discovered that I seem to be exceptionally injury-prone. After two devastating injuries in a row kept me from being able to run for the better part of a year, my running life underwent a cosmic shift with my purchase of a pair of then-cutting edge Vibram FiveFinger KSOs in the late summer of 2009. I haven't run in a pair of cushioned shoes since, and have been watching the ongoing barefoot/minimalist trend with barely contained revolutionary fervor.
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| Liberty is of course barefoot, but harder to see is that both Abraham Lincoln and David Copperfield are wearing VFFs |
My hope for this blog is that it will a source of information for those less experienced than I (a few of you) and a source of amusement for everyone else (most of you). I hope you enjoy.
Run free.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Clay; I’ve been following your blog and want to thank you for sharing your barefoot running experience with others who are interested in the lifestyle. I myself have made the transition to huarache running and have no intentions of ever turning back!
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Hi John,
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog. I especially appreciate your kids book, since I have three young kids of my own who I hope will value being barefoot and minimalist as much as I do. My name is Josh Stiles. I live in Santa Cruz California and I am an avid minimalist runner since 2011. I also have a performance running sandal company called Shamma Sandals (shammasandals.com). Please visit my site, see what you think and if you are interested in my products I would love to send you a pair to review for free.
Thanks for your consideration,
josh@shammasandals.com