BE A SMART AND INFORMED BUCK-RUNNER!

There's lots more to running than just showing up in shorts and running shoes.

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The RunningWarehouse Learning Center is a great resource - Click on the link to check it out!

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WE ARE ALL BORN TO RUN

The Human Body Is Designed for Distance

 

 

That's right! We're designed to run long distance!

 

It's just a matter of knowing how to do it right!

 

In Alpine, doing it right is called BUCK-RUNNIN'

 

Be a part of the Buck-runnin' movement -

come join the Runnin' Bucks!

 

Check out this NYTimes article listing some of the features of our bodies

that show distance running is built into our very nature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html

 

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See this 2007 article from the Journal of Sports Medicine

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2007c.pdf

 

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Explore these great resources to get a better handle on the

basic elements of Buck-runnin'

 

 

 

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Check out this new article from WWW.ARMY.MIL

THE ARMY IS NOW TEACHING THE POSE RUNNING METHOD TO SOLDIERS!!!

The Pose Method of running contributes a number of important elements to what we do in BUCK-RUNNIN'!

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Read about how the U.S. Army is teaching soldiers proper running form:

Click on the Army logo!

 

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WHAT ABOUT FOOTWEAR?

 

DON'T buy shoes just because they look cool,

or they're a good price!!

 

Modern running shoes are wonders of research, technology and design.

 

BUT many running shoes are built to correct problems

you may not even have!!

 

Running in the wrong shoes may actually CAUSE problems

you wouldn't otherwise get!!

 

Get informed before you spend a bunch of money on the wrong shoes!

 

 

If you've learned Buck-runnin' technique, scroll down>>> BUT -

 

If you're not Buck-runnin' yet:   

 

That is - IF YOU'RE STILL HEEL-STRIKING when you run >

 

Here's complete instructions on picking out a conventional running shoe

 

Click on the pic!

 

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If you've already learned to be

a Buck-runner:

>CLICK HERE for some thoughts on picking out running shoes if you're already using efficient Buck-runnin' technique>

This shoe comes highly recommended from the Pose Method's Dr. Romanov as one of the best:

 Mizuno Wave Universe 3  

It's a minimalist shoe built on the philosophy that

your foot should be allowed to function as it's designed

 

OR LOOK HERE AT OTHER GOOD OPTIONS >

 

 

___OR check out the info below:___

What in the world are Vibram Five-Fingers?

Click HERE and find out!

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WE ARE ALL BORN TO RUN

Awesome story!! Click on the book for the link to Amazon. Check it out! >

About three years before he published his book Born to Run, author Chris McDougall set out to solve the biggest mystery in modern sports: "Why does my foot hurt?"

If you've been a runner for any length of time - and you're at all typical - it's likely you're often hurt. Some studies indicate as many as 8 out of every 10 runners deals with some running injury every single year! This makes no sense - We have the best technology on the planet, we have sports podiatrists and sports medicine... and we have an endless rash of running injuries!

McDougall wanted to know why even the best runners with the best equipment and expertise in the world, not to mention recreational runners like himself, were constantly dealing with ripped hamstrings, Achilles tendonosis, agonizing bouts of plantar fasciitis, tortured Knees, lower back pain or hip pain, when we've got $150 running shoes that have been perfected with 30 years of engineering.

 Then one day, McDougall saw a picture in a magazine from one of the most grueling footraces in the country - a 100-mile ultramarathon through the Rocky Mountains around Leadville, Colorado. It was a picture of the winner - a 55-year-old Tarahumara Indian from the Copper Canyons in Mexico, who had run the entire 100-mile race in nothing but a pair of homemade sandals! As McDougall said, "What I couldn't understand is, how does he get away with it, and I can't?" That is, how can these guys wearing shoes that barely qualify as shoes run hundreds of miles over the most brutally rugged terrain, run into their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond, and never get hurt?

McDougall set out to the Copper Canyons to seek the answer. What he found is something all the great distance runners of the Western world knew and did naturally up until about 30 years ago - when modern running shoes were invented... 

Roger Bannister, Emil Zatopec, Frank Shorter, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine - They all ran megamiles in thin, uncushioned leather or canvas racing flats (or in Zatopec's case, combat boots!). But it wasn't WHAT they were wearing that mattered - it was HOW they ran! And this is the secret of the Tarahumara too! They glide with short, rapid strides on the balls of their feet - instead of long-striding and heel-striking the way most of us learn to run today...

As McDougall describes his discovery: "Strange as it sounds, the Tarahumara taught me to change my relationship with the ground. Instead of hammering down on my heels, the way I’d been taught all my life, I learned to run lightly and gently on the balls of my feet. The day I mastered it was the last day I was ever injured."

READ MORE IN BORN TO RUN!!!

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Check out this video about "Born to Run" >

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