can anybody beat my barefoot 10k PB of 34:06 🤔

Why? Is there a prize?

Barefoot people are so annoying. Look at me! Look at me!

Abebe Bikala

Zola Budd

Abebe Bikila ran the Olympic marathon barefoot on pavement about 20 seconds per mile faster in 1960.

sorry for not being clear, i mean anybody posting here.

I've beaten it before, but with shoes on. You don't a special time bonus or anything if you run without them.

i will put you down as a 'no' then. anybody else?

Yes

it looks like I am the reigning letsrun barefoot champion.

*mounts podium*

please stand for the national anthem of the united kingdom.

No, I could not beat you. The problem is that nobody wants to beat you. You have chosen a path to victory that cuts through exactly zero challengers. That is what makes it so hollow. Not to take away from your time, which is great, but honestly, the risk to our feet and legs that comes from running without shoes is too high.

I could be the fastest 10km runner in the world if I put some condition on it. Will anyone take my "10km while eating spiders" challenge? Even if I ran 40 minutes, I bet nobody could beat it.

But I do want to say that as an older masters runner, I miss the days of running pain-free and dropping times in the 34s for 10km. So congrats on that!

thank you very much. i have re-bolded the relevant parts of your reply.

That's pretty fast! I cannot beat that time.

I don't know if you're for real but if so then that's really good. Look for bfef on Strava and connect with me.

Reminds me of the guy that is the record holder for the 412 miler. Who's that, oh maybe this is him? Dean Karnazes

Yes! I am also the world record holder in the "marathon run while listening to The Orient Express on audio-book." But unlike the OP, I know that this is stupid and not really a "thing" anyone else would even want to do. Though it is a good mystery book, if you like mysteries.

Have you considered trying to beat Hobie Call? He is the WR holder in a lot of events like "running 6km while wearing a weight vest" and so on. He was on track (in his mind) to break 2:00 in the marathon by doing all his running with rucking weights on and --- wait for it --- taking them off for race day!

The OP could try this too. Train shoeless to build max toughness and then wear AlphaFlys on race day!

Don't engage with this guy, as you can see from his comments he gets very competitive about adding random conditions to running.

Last week I told him I wasn't sure what the 10k record was if you put an oreo up your bum every 500 meters... Now his kids don't have enough to eat because he's spending all his money on oreos "attempting PBs"

Morale of the story is that in a venn diagram, the barefoot runners' circle falls wholly within the insufferable people circle.