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Hormetism, cold showers and barefoot running…

Vishy KurugantiApril 11, 20134 mins

Pic courtesy gettingstronger.org Todd Becker, a freelance San Francisco Bay Area-based blogger, writes Getting Stronger – a blog on the philosophy of Hormetism, based on the application of progressive…

How a hobby turned into a business – the Invisible Shoes story

Vishy KurugantiNovember 23, 20122 mins

Steven Sashen – eating (sorry ‘running’) his own dogfood Steven Sashen sent an email this morning to his loyal customer base announcing the third anniversary of Boulder-based Invisible Shoes. There’s…

My first barefoot trail marathon

Vishy KurugantiNovember 19, 20122 mins

On Sep 16, 2012, I ran my fourth consecutive Kaveri Trail Marathon (KTM) and my eleventh marathon overall. I finished in 4 hours 45 min — 30 minutes faster than my slowest KTM (2009) and 16 minutes…

Chronicles of Barefootia

Vishy KurugantiOctober 01, 20121 mins

Chronicles of Barefootia Experiments with barefoot running – a brief (incomplete) chronology **************** It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy! Achieving terminal velocity Time to pitter patter…

Running with Padmapada

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 27, 20122 mins

In Walking on Fire, I wrote about breaching my first major barrier in barefoot running. The second inflection in my barefoot running adventures occurred on Jun 21. I call this my “Padmapada moment…

Walking on Fire

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 26, 20122 mins

If you’ve been following my blog regularly, you know that the trail around Kaikondrahalli Lake (one among a handful of Bangalore lakes undergoing rejuvenation) is my home course. As with most…

Kaikondrahalli – a runner’s lake in Bangalore

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 20, 20121 mins

Considering that I’ve run over 500km around the 1.9km loop of the Kaikondrahalli Lake (in the past 15 months), it’s about time I made a proper introduction. An introduction in pictures – from this…

Time to pitter patter: my first barefoot run

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20122 mins

It’s getting close to seven months since I switched to running barefoot. So far I’ve run 406km barefoot and a further 452km with huaraches over a total of 75-something barefoot running days. If you’ve…

What is foot reflexology?

Vishy KurugantiJune 28, 20122 mins

The contents of this post picked up from a Global Healing Exchange link shared on Facebook by one of my friends. Something tells me that my experiments in barefoot running might find some relevance…

Achieving terminal velocity

Vishy KurugantiJune 26, 20125 mins

Pic: courtesy northallertoncoll.org.uk This is Part 2 of an unfolding story on barefoot running. It continues from It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy! Two months later… After my strange out-of-the…

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