Bob Ewing is once again running the Marine Corps Marathon this year, but unlike his previous MCM last year which he ran in Five Fingers and raised money for St. Judes, this year’s marathon is being run in honor of Bob’s mother, who is fighting cancer, an…
Tag: Christopher McDougall — Author of Born to Run, Barefoot Runner, Men’s Health Editor
Christopher McDougall is the author of the best-selling book Born to Run (review), a book published in 2009 that has spawned a revival in the running world.
Additionally, the book challenges the commonly held beliefs that:
Running should be painful (Running shouldn’t hurt)
Running shoes reduce injuries for runners (Still up for scientific debate)
The book also takes up the cause of the Tarahumara Indians, a tribe of indigenous people who live in the Copper Canyons of Mexico and run hundreds of miles a week without injury wearing nothing more on their feet than homemade shoes — huaraches — best described as a thin strip of rubber (often old tire material) laced to the foot with a strap of leather, not unlike the sandals worn by Romans of time long past.
As a result of Born to Run‘s literary success, McDougall has become the default spokesperson for the barefoot running and minimalist footwear movement (Though McDougall typically defers to the Godfather of the barefoot running movement, Ken Bob Saxton).
BirthdayShoes has taken an active interest in McDougall going so far as to interview Chris. In addition to the posts below on Mr. McDougall, please also find the wiki listing of Christopher McDougall articles here. You might also enjoy this Authors@Google presentation he gave in October 2008:
Christopher McDougall resides in Pennsylvania and blogs (when he has the time!) at chrismcdougall.com though he wasn’t at the time of writing Born to Run, he is now prefers to run barefoot.
Read more on Christopher McDougall below:
A recap of the All-Star Barefoot Running Clinic in Boston sponsored by City Sports and Vibram Five Fingers and led by Christopher McDougall, Daniel Lieberman, and Corrado Giambalvo.
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This is Not a Fad: You can Run Pain Free.
Giving up on running after two decades of swollen knees and chronic injuries, one runner discovers the key to pain-free running is in how to run with a forefoot strike, as with Pose or Vibram Five Fingers.
Running isn’t supposed to hurt (if you’re doing it right!). A look at the barefoot running debate, and a discussion of it’s important consequences for individuals outside the running community.
Exclusive interview with Born to Run author Christopher McDougall who talks about American culture, the barefoot running movement, and what’s next for this best selling author!
If you didn’t catch it, there was a short article by Christopher McDougall titled Is It Better To Be Barefoot that hit Parade magazine yesterday (link). McDougall continues to bring barefoot running to the masses by sounding the alert that heavily padde…
A lot of you read the Roving Runner piece from the NY Times this past weekend (as well as other pres
There has been a lot of either barefoot running and/or Vibram Five Fingers news over the past few da
Last night Born to Run author Christopher McDougall was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
A review of Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. Born to run is simultaneously a story about an elite band of ultramarathon runners, a takedown of the sports shoe industry, and an expose of how human beings may have been literally born to run, being “designed” by eons of evolution for long-distance running.