Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue Apr 13th, 2010, 28 comments
I’ve been hot on the trail to get my hands on (and feet into) as many different pairs of minimal shoes as I can so I can recommend the best shoes for midfoot strike running. (For my most up-to-date shoe recommendations please go to Blogs from Feb. 7th and March 26th.) I have to say [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Fri Mar 26th, 2010, 26 comments
I just received a pair of great shoes from the good folks at Mizuno. They’re called the Wave Universe 3…sounds like a good name for a water park. When I picked up the package I thought they’d sent me an empty box. No kidding, I’m a size 10 and these flyweight racers tipped my postage [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Sun Mar 21st, 2010, 1 comments
I just returned from a great weekend at the ING Atlanta Marathon Health & Fitness Expo and it was very successful. The weather was warm and sunny and Atlanta was thriving with runners ready to take on the pavement. It’s always inspirational to be surrounded by so many bound and determined individuals. I met one [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue Feb 23rd, 2010, 10 comments
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 me a picture of his newly enhanced running shoes and I thought I’d pass it along, so [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Sun Feb 14th, 2010, 6 comments
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 in the Nature video showing [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Sun Feb 7th, 2010, 68 comments
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 of recommended shoes to try [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Thu Jan 28th, 2010, 13 comments
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 Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Mon Jan 11th, 2010, 3 comments
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 only thing urging me outside [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Sat Jan 2nd, 2010, 10 comments
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 that I’m living in Asheville, [...]
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Posted by Danny Dreyer on Tue Nov 17th, 2009, 16 comments
I’d like to clear up a bit of confusion about Chi Running that seems to crop up every now and then. Some runners have come to Chi Running workshops expecting their running to feel effortless by the end of the class. Then they write us afterwards and complain that they didn’t feel as though they got their [...]
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