Baring their soles for the sake of a good run
If the world of barefoot running has a spokesman, it's Ken Bob Saxton. Saxton, a 49-year-old computer technician from Long Beach, started running barefoot on the beach in 1980 and years later made the transition to pavement. He did his first marathon barefoot in 1997. Now, he says, putting on running shoes seems foreign. "I can't feel the ground, and I feel like I'm missing something," says Saxton, whose website is http://www.runningbarefoot.org . "You lose that sense of feel, like you're trying to do things with gloves on."
Posted by chrisw at May 30, 2005 10:50 PM