Working on Movergy.com I now write for their blog too! I’ve written blog posts since the 9th of May: here’s my favourite so far:
found here: http://blog.movergy.com/
Here at Movergy we’re always researching current trends within sport and movement, as well as looking into the classics, like running.
There’s been special attempting to running recently with the Race for Life marathons, the Manchester half marathon, the Olympics etc and whilst gathering research I recently watched a documentary about the Tarahumara Tribe in Mexico - this tribe is world famous for their ability to run hundreds of miles a day! (Here’s the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarahumara_people).
What’s interesting about the The Tarahumara is that they run barefoot using the toe strike method of running.
Why is this relevant today? Bare-foot running is making it’s comeback with long distance runners especially, with Havard’s Skeletal Bio Lab making discoveries about the benefits of running without trainers (http://barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/). There is some great information on their site about what shoes would best be suited for you based on what type of runner you are.
Let us know what you think about bare-foot running, or if you know of any other interesting facts about sport being practised in a unique way
Too good!
Woman posts photo updates of beautiful cruise taken by man who stole her iPhone.
And you thought you were sick of looking at other people’s boring vacation photos. After Katy McCaffrey’s iPhone went missing on a cruise, she assumed that it was lost to the sea. Until a series of photos started automatically uploading to her iCloud account, and Katy got to see all the fun a man named Nelson was having with her iPhone. Katy did the smart thing and immediately uploaded the photos to her Facebook account. This is technology at its cruelest, and thievery at its stupidest.
Via Happy Place