Comments on: Walk With Me

By: Walking The Portland Marathon | Get Fit Slowly

Walking The Portland Marathon | Get Fit Slowly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:01:57 +0000

[...] week, I put out a call for volunteers to walk with me and got three offers to help. So this morning, promptly at 7 am, I lined up to walk [...]

By: 2009 Portland Marathon Race Report

2009 Portland Marathon Race Report — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:48:33 +0000

[...] week, I put out a call for volunteers to walk with me and got three offers to help. So this morning, promptly at 7 am, I lined up to walk [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:16:31 +0000

Sorry to miss you, J.D. We’ll be farming it up this weekend. Have fun!

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:43:08 +0000

Sorry, I won’t be joining you, but I know my “coaching assistant” will provide excellent support! I’ll be thinking of you and waiting for your “race report.” Enjoy the time. -p

By: Alexander Gieg

Alexander Gieg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:29:38 +0000

PS.: In an unrelated point, I’m seeing this error in the right bar right below the “Sally Parrott Ashbrook” title entry:

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I hope this helps.

By: Alexander Gieg

Alexander Gieg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:27:16 +0000

I don’t run, so I cannot say anything useful from experience, but since you mentioned injuries I recalled an article I on Lifehacker I read a few months ago describing the benefits “barefoot style” running provides, specially to those who suffer regular injuries.

The article argues injuries usually come from using typical running shoes, as those cause the foot to move in a very different way from the natural human run movement, the one we instinctively use when running barefooted, thus causing bones and articulations to move in wrong ways:

http://lifehacker.com/5315406/ditch-your-shoes-for-better-runs

The articles linked from it provide way more information and are all very interesting.

By the way, I haven’t searched your blog to see whether you already know or have tried this. If this is redundant information, well, sorry. :-)

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:15:21 +0000

I would love to join you. Do you want me to join you on the first part? I have no problem getting up early.

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:13:01 +0000

JD – I know first hand how much it helps to have somebody by your side during these kind of events, so I think it is a great idea to enlist your friends. Beware, though, they try very hard to keep all non-registered runners off of the St. John’s bridge, so probably best to go that section alone.

I’d love to join you for a bit – 17 min miles is just about my pace right now! Let me check with Mac and get back to you…