http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny Just another ChiLiving Blogs weblog Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:20:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_247" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Great example of good positioning of the sheetmetal screws."][/caption] I'm sure I've mentioned in a past blog that my running buddies and I used to screw sheetmetal screws into the bottoms of our running shoes whenever the conditions got especially treacherous. Well, a good friend just sent ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/02/23/winter-running-shoe-tricks/ Since the release of Dr. Lieberman's study I've had a few requests from folks wanting me to show my test results from a gait analysis I had done at the UVA human performance lab. They're curious to see how my Ground Reaction Force (GFR) chart compares with the one shown ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/02/15/comparison-of-harvard-study-results-with-chirunning/ In response to all the current interest in barefoot running (spurred on by Chris McDougall's Born to Run book and the recent study published in the journal Nature by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, suggesting that barefoot or minimal-shoe running creates less impact on your legs) I've come up with a list ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/02/07/chirunning-recommendations-for-minimal-shoes/ Since Chris McDougall's book, Born to Run came out, there has been an increasing amount of press coverage around the question of running technique in general and especially with respect to barefoot running. Well, this week the discussion jumped to a new level when Dr. Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Human ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/01/29/chirunnings-perspective-on-harvard-barefoot-study/ They're predicting that the days are going to be warming up this week, thank God. It's been a difficult time for those of us who insist on doing our ChiRunning outdoors. I've still been going out regularly, but I must say, there have been a couple of days where the ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/01/11/more-thoughts-on-winter-running/ I got really spoiled living in California. I was in the Bay Area and I think I saw it snow maybe twice in the nine years I was there. Winter running there is no problem at all if you didn't mind getting rained on every now and then. But now ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2010/01/02/chirunning-winter-running-clothing-suggestions/ I'd like to clear up a bit of confusion about #ChiRunning that seems to crop up every now and then. Some runners have come to ChiRunning workshops expecting their running to feel effortless by the end of the class. Then they write us afterwards and complain that they didn't ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2009/11/17/is-chirunning-truly-effortless-running/ I just finished reading Born to Run while I was on my way out to Death Valley to teach ChiRunning. I can see why it's such a popular book and also why it's causing such a stir in the running community. It's a really fun read. Chris McDougall is funny ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2009/10/29/minimal-chirunning-shoes/ I had the great pleasure of being surrounded by three men who are legends in the sport of running. I was invited to teach ChiRunning at a running camp organized by Marshal Ulrich and Ray Zahab. It was the first in what they hope to become an annual ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2009/10/18/ray-zahab-marshall-ulrich-and-bart-yasso-in-a-chirunning-class/ Another race day today. I ran in the Asheville Citizen Times Half Marathon. The week immediately following my 10K Trail Championship race I ran easy but hilly runs and then, since these two races were only two weeks apart, stepped right back into resuming by training for this race. In ... http://chirunning.com/blogs/danny/2009/09/13/half-marathon-race-report/