Archive for October 2010

We’re at D minus 6 till show time: It may teeter toward undignified, but for sheer showmanship I have this hankering to wheel Barefoot Ted on stage for the Reinventing Running cabaret in a handcart wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask. As for one of our other featured speakers — urban paleo explorer John Durant —…

Seconds before I got on stage for this talk, I had a totally different speech in mind. But I’d just gotten back from Leadville, where I’d run with Barefoot Ted for the first time in years, and damn if he didn’t seize control of my brain. I’ve got fresh material for my Nov 5 talk…

One of the featured speakers at our “Reinventing Running” event at the New York City Marathon is Eric Orton, the coach who first tempted me with the idea that it was possible to transform yourself from an injured, discouraged, busted-down ex-runner into an ultramarathoner in just 9 months. He did it then, and he’s done…

Thanks to Dr. Lieberman, who talked me into it, I’ll be running my first marathon this fall since I gave up running for good 10 years ago. That was before meeting the Tarahumara, and Caballo, and lots of other stuff that ended up becoming Born to Run. I had zero interest in running New York,…

So here’s the backstory of this event: As our way of celebrating the New York City Marathon, we decided to try re-creating on stage some of the processes of discovery I went through while researching Born to Run. This won’t be a book talk, or a barefoot-running lecture, or a go-get’m motivational speech. Instead, we’ll…

The streets of Washington DC get mighty cold on Halloween and 26.2 miles hasn’t gotten any shorter, but Bob Ewing is still planning to run the Marine Corps Marathon in his bare feet. He’s not just rallying in support of his mother’s battle with lymphoma — he’s also mustering foot soldiers for a more universal…

If you made it to the epic Barefoot Harlem-Brooklyn Run in August or the Woodstock of Wild Human Animal Mayhem on Governor’s Island, you’ve got an idea what to expect. If you didn’t, grab a ticket while they last and don’t miss out again. On Friday, Nov. 5, we’ll be staging a TED-like theater of…