Posts by Christopher

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…

On Thursday, Sept 23, at 7pm, I’ll be speaking at The Book Stall in Winnetka, Ill. And that same day at noon, it’s supposed to be gloriously sunny and cool and perfect for a long run around Lake Shore Drive. I know it’s the middle of a work day and super short notice, but if…

That’s a lot of ADHD punctuation but all for a good cause. John and Maggie Durant, the brother-sister team who have become national leaders of hunter-gatherer athleticism and also helped mastermind our epic Harlem-Brooklyn Barefoot Run, are about to stage an encore: The 1st Annual New York City Barefoot Run, an event which Vegas odds…

I’m going to be visiting a bunch of places around the country this fall, and hopefully sneaking in a run wherever I land. Here’s my schedule for the next week or so: Saturday, Sept. 11: Winston-Salem, NC. Bookmarks Festival of Books. **I’m also meeting some NC runners for a loop around Salem Lake at 8am.…

Chris – Hopefully you get this email. I wanted to thank you for your book as you truly have saved me from surgery and reenergized my running. I have been very active my whole life, wrestling year round (running sprints barefoot during high school) and the Marine Corp (all training done in combat boots that…

I know why I got such a jolt out of iskiate, the Tarahumara’s Stone Age energy brew, when I was down in the Copper Canyons — I was dehydrated and hurting for calories. So was Carl Lumholtz, the great Norwegian explorer, when he explored Tarahumara country in the 1800s and took his first stunned swallows:…

Angela Raines got a super upclose seat at the Boulder Book Store talk, but it didn’t come cheap. “I got to sit cross-legged on the floor,” she reports, “inches away from the author’s very own, bare and slightly grimey, feet.” (I’d gone on a dusty trail run that afternoon in a pair of Barefoot Ted’s…