306 people run a half marathon totally barefoot

A bunch of impressionable morons if you ask me.

If they continued running barefoot everyday, there would most certainly be injuries.

Not that surprised that there weren't any injuries that day.

In fact I said many of them ran first time. Quite a few train everyday (some as long as six years) barefoot.

Ha ha, they are beaming like the Tarahumara !

results?

And their times were...?

2/10

So if I can find results from a half marathon with at least 306 finishers that didn't get injured while they all wore shoes ... can we just call the whole debate a draw and move on?

Results? Winner clocked 1:10:03 (ya,I know Tadese clocked 58;23 in Lisbon on 21 March '10). There were 155 finishers within 2.5 hours

@Shoe Guy.. you got it wrong. 306 DIDN'T wear shoes. And didn't get hurt. Next year we are getting over a 1000 to run barefoot. Care to join? And be a party in breaking another world record?

@A Skeptic... in fact you have exuded much optimism by awarding a couple of digits more than I had expected. Thanks:)

Anand wrote:

There were 155 finishers within 2.5 hours

This is awful. 2.5 hours puts you in the top 51%?????????

The NYC Half Marathon had 11602 finishers. 10698 finished in under 2.5 hours (92%).

Being barefoot doesn't make it more of an accomplishment.

You may better call it the NYC 21.1 km race. A genuine 'Marathon' needs to be run the way Pheidippedes did (if his memory is what you are commemorating); not only emulating his distance, but also his mode - BAREFOOT. One may as well wear skates.

Yeah so actually only barefoot marathons count from now on. The world record for a marathon is like in the 2:20s.

Ok so Anand is just trolling. perhaps 2/10 was not generous enough.

Talking of a 2:20's marathon record, the world record for a shod marathon in 1952 was 2:20:42.2 by Jim Peters. It took 56 years for Haile's 2:03:59. Barefoot's just started. Will better with time, no doubt.

Anand wrote:

You may better call it the NYC 21.1 km race. A genuine 'Marathon' needs to be run the way Pheidippedes did (if his memory is what you are commemorating); not only emulating his distance, but also his mode - BAREFOOT. One may as well wear skates.

if you emulate half his distance you are most likely around 55 miles to short. if you believe he ran 26.2 (which the legend really only says 25) you must also believe he died upon completion. did your barefooters emulate that as well? we all hope so

Yeah, barefoot running just started. It's a new thing. People haven't been doing it very long.

heres my stance on barefooting. we were made to run barefoot. on trails, grass, dirt. not on concrete and asphalt. if the world was prairie then barefooting would be fine. but we live in a concrete jungle. it doesnt fly there.

on a slightly contradictory side note- i tried running an easy 4 barefoot on the beach. i stepped on a shell and cut my foot. it screwed me for a week. i said never again