Run Fat B!tch Run

Saw a great book in WH Smiths today...

Run Fat B!tch Run

I have no idea what the book is about other than it's about encouraging fat ladies to lose weight by running, but the title caught my attention and made me laugh.

Sh*t Runners Say

Runners are strange creatures. We get up at insane hours of the morning to run insane distances on an almost daily basis. Along with this comes all the banter about these shoes, that injury, and the next best running gadget or race you must run.

Recently talk has turned to barefoot and minimalist running and along with it a whole new topic of discussion for those long Sunday runs. As with anything new or different, you always get the "experts" and those who get a bit over enthusiastic and this is what Steven Sashen of Invisible Shoes has capitalised on for this first video, "Sh*t Barefoot Runners Say"...

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Barefoot Running Humour

I'm a subscriber to Barefoot Ted's huaraches Google Group, and the other day one of the members started a thread about funny comments and retorts which I thought I'd share in summary:

OrionFyre:

I got stopped by a cop who pulled up along side me to see if I was OK.
"why do you ask?" I say.
"Because you're not wearing shoes..." he replies
I look down at my feet with a look of surprise. "Oh shit! they must have fallen off."
I stand upright and look back the way I had came covering my eyes from the suns glare. In the corner of my eye I see the cop turn around in the car and look back.
"dammit." I mumble aloud
"I knew I should have tied them tighter."

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