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Frank Horwill, MBE, sadly passed away on New Years Day 2012, he was 84.
Frank was an internationally respected running coach whose coaching ideas were followed by many highly successful athletes; you can read about Frank on the Serpentine website.
This session, is one of Frank’s ‘Golden Sessions’, it was published in his article ‘ read more
Maybe it’s time for some of us to question our ideas about running. Perhaps some of those basic rules or guidelines that we follow, or are advised to follow by others, are not quite right for us.
In it’s recent, thought provoking article: Breaking all read more
Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who has completed the survey so far.
With over one hundred respondents recorded so far, we have the beginnings of some very useful data.
Here’s a taste:
There is plenty more data, and all of the above will have to be put into context by the other answers that have been given.
Have you tried running barefoot or in minimalist shoes?
If you have, and read more
If this story was about anyone else, we could probably take it with a pinch of salt. Given that it’s Eddie Izzard, anyone with an interest in barefoot running should probably sit up and take notice.
If you followed his extraordinary run around Britain you’ll know that there could be much to learn from this effort. Eddie proved to many people that we can often learn more from those read more
We’ve updated our barefoot running survey. It can now be completed conveniently online and you’ll be able to see summerised results after submitting.
We’re interested in responses from anyone who is running barefoot or who has run barefoot in the past — in this instance barefoot means running some miles completely barefoot or in very minimalist shoes, such as Vibram Five Fingers read more
By RTP 3 Comments
Barefoot running remains a hot topic, and with any hot topic comes strong opinion — often ill-founded. One of the greatest claims of the barefoot running revolution has been that running barefoot reduces injury risk for distance runners. I must admit, I sit very firmly on the fence here. I came to barefoot running with long term plantar fasciitis and also tendency to suffer with runners knee (patellofemoral read more