stephenhk23's Space http://stephenhk23.posterous.com Most recent posts at stephenhk23's Space posterous.com Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:38:29 -0800 Barefoot Running is Bad For You! http://stephenhk23.posterous.com/barefoot-running-is-bad-for-you http://stephenhk23.posterous.com/barefoot-running-is-bad-for-you Ever since Chris McDoguall's book, Born to Run, became popular (interestingly, long after it came out), the debate about barefoot running has become heated. There was no big argument when Zola Budd ran barefoot, or when Abebe Bikila won the marathon without shoes. But once "regular folk" started kicking off their kicks, it's become a rhetorical battlefield out there -- the converts touting the great benefits of barefoot running, and the critics assuring everyone that taking off your running shoes is akin to playing Russian Roulette. Then the Harvard study came... Read full post here

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